Bridge End Farmhouse

BRIDGE END FARMHOUSE, MEADOW LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072551
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Bridge End Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
BRIDGE END FARMHOUSE, MEADOW LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072551
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Bridge End Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
BRIDGE END FARMHOUSE, MEADOW LANE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BRIDGE END FARMHOUSE, MEADOW LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lancashire
District:
Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:
Croston
National Grid Reference:
SD 46424 17957

Details

CROSTON MEADOW LANE SD 41 NE 8/82 Bridge End Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse. Probably later C17, altered and enlarged. Roughcast handmade brick on stone plinth, roofs of slates and red tiles (rear wing). Two-bay end-baffle-entry plan, altered, with added rear wing making T-plan. Two storeys; 1st floor band carried round the whole; now symmetrical facade with narrow central door (insertion), and 2 small casements on each floor; chimney at right gable, and corner chimney at left end. Right gable wall has small sliding sash with small panes, which is a firewindow, and towards the rear a blocked doorway now concealed by the roughcast. Rear has 2 storey wing now reduced to one bay, and an outshut to the 1st bay. Interior: housepart in 2nd bay has a large inglenook fireplace with bressummer chamfered on both sides and tongue-stopped on the back, a lateral beam matching this, and former external door altered as a cupboard; parlour in 1st bay has a beam like the other, and a cross-corner fireplace (altered); at 1st floor a large roof truss with chamfered tie-beam and angle struts visible.

Listing NGR: SD4642417957

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
184334
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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