Smithy Cottage
Smithy Cottage, North Road, Bretherton, PR26 9AY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072567
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Smithy Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Smithy Cottage, North Road, Bretherton, PR26 9AY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072567
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Smithy Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Smithy Cottage, North Road, Bretherton, PR26 9AY
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:
- Smithy Cottage, North Road, Bretherton, PR26 9AY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bretherton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 47774 20920
Details
SD 42 SE
3/20
BRETHERTON
NORTH ROAD
Smithy Cottage
II
Cottage; probably C17, altered in C18 and C19. Cruck-framed, with cladding of handmade brick on rendered plinth, corrugated sheet roof with boarded eaves, gable chimneys. Three bays. One and half storeys; modern brick gabled porch offset left, a two-light casement to the left of this, an altered casement to the right and a little two-light casement in the eaves above it, a vertical joint to the third bay and a segmental-headed two-light casement in this bay. Lean-to greenhouse addition at left end (not included) and two square inserted windows in gable above. Rear has inter alia a door and a two-light sliding sash with four panes per leaf, and to the right of this the exposed end of a tie-beam.
Interior: lower part of one cruck blade is visible in partition wall between first and second bays; remainder of this truss and whole of another likely to be incorporated in partition walls.
Listing NGR: SD4777420920
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184271
- 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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