Higher Side Beet Farmhouse
HIGHER SIDE BEET FARMHOUSE, SIDE BEET LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072704
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Side Beet Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER SIDE BEET FARMHOUSE, SIDE BEET LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072704
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1965
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Side Beet Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER SIDE BEET FARMHOUSE, SIDE BEET 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:
- HIGHER SIDE BEET FARMHOUSE, SIDE BEET LANE
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 70860 30070
Details
RISHTON SIDE BEET LANE SD 73 SW 2/104 Higher Side Beet Farmhouse 23.6.1965 (formerly listed as Higher Side Beet - II with attached outbuilding)
Farmhouse, formerly known as Higher Sidebight, dated 1699 (said to be date of restoration); several builds. Sandstone blocks and coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, slate roof with ridge chimney at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays. Three bays and 2 storeys, with C19 wing to rear of 1st bay. Front wall has 4 diminishing courses of large stone blocks at the base (interrupted between 2nd and 3rd bays); present front door in 2nd bay has small modern brick porch with an old stone lintel lettered in the centre HMG; to left of this porch are a 2-light mullioned stairlight 1699 and a 4-light mullioned window (lacking 2 mullions), both with hoodmoulds; to right of it a large altered window (with hoodmould) and a doorway breaking a hoodmould, between which the masonry suggests original position of a door with gabled porch. At 1st floor under eaves 3 small windows originally mullioned, now altered. Rear has altered or blocked openings, including blocked 2-light mullioned window. Interior not seen. (Ainsworth Homesteads pp. 359-61)
Listing NGR: SD7086030070
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183907
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ainsworth, R, The Old Homesteads of Accrington and District, (1928), 359-61
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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