Windy Bank Farmhouse
WINDY BANK FARMHOUSE, BLACKBURN OLD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072701
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Windy Bank Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WINDY BANK FARMHOUSE, BLACKBURN OLD ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072701
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1965
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Windy Bank Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WINDY BANK FARMHOUSE, BLACKBURN OLD 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:
- WINDY BANK FARMHOUSE, BLACKBURN OLD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Hyndburn (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 70536 31018
Details
RISHTON BLACKBURN OLD ROAD SD 73 SW 2/99 Windy Bank Farmhouse 23. 6. 1965 (Formerly listed as Windy Bank) - II
Farmhouse, probably early C17, altered, now dilapidated. Rubble, faced with sandstone blocks, brought to courses, with quoins; stone slate roof with gable copings, (some missing), and chimneys (now missing) at left gable and on ridge at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays. Three-bay baffle- entry plan (3rd bay projects), with later outshut to rear of 1st and 2nd bays. Two storeys: at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays a 2-storey porch with lean-to roof sweeping out from slightly above eaves level has at ground floor a part-blocked doorway with shouldered lintel, and at 1st floor under eaves a small chamfered window lacking its mullion. To left, at junction of 1st and 2nd bays is a later single-storey porch (once gabled, now dilapidated), flanked by formerly-mullioned 4-light windows (that on right partly taken into doorway); at 1st floor a square window and a 2-light window with flush mullion. To right, front wall has collapsed and 3rd bay is gutted, but has chamfered rectangular fireplace at 1st floor, 2-tiered doorways at rear of cross wall, and a small blocked 3-light window with wooden diamond mullions at 1st floor. Rear wall of 1st floor. Rear wall of 1st bay has altered windows with very large jambs.
Listing NGR: SD7053631018
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183902
- 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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