Iron Barn Farmhouse
IRON BARN FARMHOUSE, SOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072569
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Iron Barn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- IRON BARN FARMHOUSE, SOUTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072569
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Iron Barn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- IRON BARN FARMHOUSE, SOUTH ROAD
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:
- IRON BARN FARMHOUSE, SOUTH ROAD
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 47947 20434
Details
BRETHERTON SOUTH ROAD SD 42 SE 3/25 Iron Barn Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse, now house. Early C17 altered in C18, recently renovated. Colour-washed handmade brick on plinth of red sandstone, roof of stone slate (front) and slate (rear). Three-bay baffle-entry plan with projecting porch, later additions to front and rear of 1st bay. Two storeys; high chamfered plinth; single-storey gabled porch, in line with ridge chimney at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, with round-headed outer opening, stone side benches, and studded board door with ornamental strap hinges, in pegged oak doorcase with Tudor-arched lintel; segmental-headed 3-light sliding sash window on each side at ground floor, and 3 small 2-light sliding sashes at 1st floor, that in the centre segmental-headed, and all these windows with small panes; gabled single-storey addition to front of 1st bay was formerly a dairy. Rear: all windows altered and enlarged (probably in C19), that in centre now French window breaking plinth. Interior: 1/4-round moulded lateral beams in 2nd and 3rd bays, one with a concave brace dying into the rear wall and another with a blocked mortice in the same position; brick chimney stack with back-to-back fireplaces which have Tudor-arched stone lintels on stone corbels, and on one side a round-arched recess which may have been for a bread oven; at 1st floor blocked mortices in the soffit of a beam close to the chimney stack suggesting a former smoke bay; roof has kingpost truss with wattle holes in soffit.
Listing NGR: SD4794720434
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184276
- 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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