152 AND 154, SOUTH ROAD
152 AND 154, SOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072570
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 152 AND 154, SOUTH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 152 AND 154, SOUTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072570
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 152 AND 154, SOUTH ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 152 AND 154, 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:
- 152 AND 154, 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 47643 20412
Details
BRETHERTON SOUTH ROAD SD 42 SE 3/29 Nos.152 and 154 (Formerly listed 17.4.67 as Bretherton Free School) GV II
School, now 2 houses. Dated 1653 on lintel; altered. Roughcast brick, common brick rear, slate roof. Rectangular plan, 3 bays, altered. Two storeys; no.154 on left has single-storey gabled porch of squared sandstone, segmental-headed doorway breaking into a large rectangular datestone displaying a lengthy inscription in raised lettering:
THIS FREE SCHOOL WAS ERECTED AND BUILT AT THE PROPER COSTS AND CHARGES OF JAMES FLETCHER OF LONDON MARCANT AND AT THE REQUEST OF MISTRIS JANE FLETCHER HIS WIFE WHO WAS BORNE IN THIS TOWNE. JUNE THE FOURTEENTH ANNODONI 1653
One window on each side of porch on each floor, all C19 4-pane sashes; 2 similar but smaller windows on each floor of no.152 to right; ridge chimney at junction, gable chimney at right end. Rear of less interest. Interior: altered, but no.154 has 2 stopped 1/4-round moulded beams, and no.152 has a roughly-hewn chamfered beam, cambered in the centre.
Listing NGR: SD4764320412
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184280
- 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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