Hough House Farmhouse
HOUGH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, HOLT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072575
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hough House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HOUGH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, HOLT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072575
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hough House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOUGH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, HOLT 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.
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:
- HOUGH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, HOLT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brindle
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 59138 22998
Details
BRINDLE HOLT LANE SD 52 SE 5/44 - Hough House Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. C17 or earlier, altered probably in C18; now house. Cruck-framed and coursed squared sandstone with large quoins on base of very large dressed rectangular blocks, steeply-pitched slate roof with modern chimney on ridge. Three-bay plan with projecting porch/kitchen at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays on east side, former porch at junction of 1st and 2nd bays on west side. One and a half storeys; gabled porch on east side has door in right side wall, 3-light chamfered flush mullion window in gable wall; to left, a similar 3-light window and a square casement; to right, a small blocked window (like a firewindow). Left gable has an extruded brick chimney, 2 square windows at ground floor and one above; right gable has one large inserted window on each floor. Rear (west side) has recessed chamfered mullion windows of 3 and 4 lights, a gabled dormer above the latter, with a 3-light window; small gabled porch protects inner doorway with moulded surround, now blocked. Interior: altered, but partition wall between 1st (south) and middle bays incorporates a full cruck truss.
Listing NGR: SD5913822998
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184295
- 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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