Roscoe Lowe Farmhouse
ROSCOE LOWE FARMHOUSE, ROSCOE LOWE BROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072563
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Roscoe Lowe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROSCOE LOWE FARMHOUSE, ROSCOE LOWE BROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072563
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Roscoe Lowe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROSCOE LOWE FARMHOUSE, ROSCOE LOWE BROW
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ROSCOE LOWE FARMHOUSE, ROSCOE LOWE BROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Anderton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 61766 13364
Details
ANDERTON ROSCOE LOWE BROW SD 61 SW 14/8 Roscoe Lowe Farmhouse l7.4.67 GV II
Farmhouse of 2 builds, dated 1683 and 1759, the first containing earlier fabric and now used as store. Squared sandstone with quoins, stone slate roofs. L-shaped plan formed by addition of 1759 at right angles to west gable of earlier building. Two storeys, on sloping site, the later part higher. This is 3 bays, symmetrical except that right end overlaps gable of older part, has gable chimneys, a central doorway with simple moulded architrave, 2 windows at ground floor and 3 above, all relatively large with splayed stone heads, the upper of 3, 2, and 3 lights with chamfered flush mullions, the lower altered as 2-light top-hung casements; the lintel of the 2-light window at 1st floor above the door is inscribed 0 S M 1759 (= Samuel Oldknow). Left gable has a 2-light attic window formerly mullioned, rear has a round-headed 3-stage stairlight with chamfered transoms and central mullion, a small window at ground level below this; right gable, mostly covered by lean-to addition, has an attic window like that in the left gable. The older part is 2 bays, much altered in C18, when it appears to have been raised and cased in stone; the re-entrant or south side has a blocked doorway in the centre, 3-light chamfered flush flush-mullion windows at ground floor and 1st floor right, an altered window at 1st floor left, and close to the junction a little square window at 1st floor lighting a staircase: the north side has a large single-storey gabled porch altered as a washhouse, the gable incorporating a worn datestone lettered in relief (?) F, a doorway and a window in the 1683 both sides of this, another doorway to the left of it, and an altered 3-light window above. The interior of this part has a timber framed partition with remains of a cruck blade at ground floor of the north end; and in the 1st bay, entered from the porch, a structure which may have been an inglenook. History: from this house Samuel Oldknow operated a putting-out system in the local textile industry before moving to Stockport and developing a spinning mill at Mellor.
Listing NGR: SD6176613364
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184259
- 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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