Higher Red Lees Farmhouse
HIGHER RED LEES FARMHOUSE, RED LEES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072676
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Red Lees Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER RED LEES FARMHOUSE, RED LEES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072676
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Red Lees Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER RED LEES FARMHOUSE, RED LEES 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:
- HIGHER RED LEES FARMHOUSE, RED LEES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cliviger
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 87275 31293
Details
SD 53 SE CLIVIGER RED LEES ROAD
3/33 Higher Red Lees Farmhouse 1.4.1953 - II
Farmhouse. Dated 1631 internally; altered. Coursed squared sandstone, stone slate roof, stone coping with kneelers and apex finial at left gable. Two-unit plan with additional but integral through-passage at right hand end, behind main chimney stack; added lean-to porch and kitchen overlapping this end (modern addition to rear of left end not included). Two storeys; C19 doorway in C17 style inserted at junction of bays; original principal entrance at right hand end, now inside lean-to, has a triangular-headed chamfered doorway to the through-passage (a similar doorway at the rear end altered as a window); at ground floor, recessed chamfered mullion windows with hoodmoulds: 4, 5 and 4 lights (the last being a firewindow); at 1st floor, three 3-light chamfered flush mullion windows, and at the right hand end a chamfered single light. Left gable has a 3-light window on each floor towards the rear; right gable has a chamfered single light towards the rear at 1st floor; rear has the altered doorway at ground floor, and a 2-and a 3-light flush mullion window above. Two chimney stacks on the ridge. Interior: principal feature of interest is exceptionally deep firehood area with a 2-stage stud-and-plank heck wall protecting it from the original entry at the rear end of the through-passage, and very large stop-chamfered firehood bressummer; 2 similarly decorated beams, the further ends surrounded with remains of moulded plaster, and on the wall between them a moulded plaster shield lettered 1631 I.E (= John Eastwood). Reference: RCHM p.141.
Listing NGR: SD8727231264
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184039
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911), 141
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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