Sales's Farmhouse With Attached Barn

SALES'S FARMHOUSE WITH ATTACHED BARN, SALES'S LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072825
Date first listed:
09-Aug-1966
List Entry Name:
Sales's Farmhouse With Attached Barn
Statutory Address:
SALES'S FARMHOUSE WITH ATTACHED BARN, SALES'S LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1072825
Date first listed:
09-Aug-1966
List Entry Name:
Sales's Farmhouse With Attached Barn
Statutory Address 1:
SALES'S FARMHOUSE WITH ATTACHED BARN, SALES'S 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SALES'S FARMHOUSE WITH ATTACHED BARN, SALES'S LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lancashire
District:
Rossendale (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 81798 14987

Details

SD 81 SW RAMSBOTTOM SALES'S LANE 12/140 Sales's Farmhouse with attached 9.8.1966 barn

- II

Farmhouse and barn under one roof, dated 1679 on re-cut lintel of doorway of lean-to at right end. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, stone slate roof with brick chimney close to right gable. L-shaped plan: house of 2-bay end-baffle-entry type with extension to rear of 2nd bay, and 3-bay barn continued to left. Two storeys, walls raised 3 or 4 courses, rear extension separately roofed; original entrance in right return wall now covered by single-storey lean-to; present entrance by inserted door to 1st bay. Left of this a chamfered mullion window with hoodmould (originally 4 lights, altered, now lacking 2 mullions), right of it a chamfered mullion 4-light window and a 2-light firewindow with linked hoodmoulds, both lacking one mullion; 1st floor has 2 chamfered flush mullion windows, both 3-lights, altered, lacking one mullion. At right end lean-to (replacing original porch) has doorway with re-cut lintel inscribed ":IS : 1679:", and extension partly covered by this has plain doorway and remains of one flush mullion window on each floor. Interior: 2nd bay has inglenook fireplace with very large crudely chamfered bressumer, heck to original doorway on the left, 2 chamfered beams. History: Thomas Sale, Quaker, imprisoned 1665 (Bury Guardian 4.9.1926, and 21 and 28.10, 4.11.1933). (NB plan-type closely resembling Ridshaw Farmhouse, Bury Old Road, qv).

Listing NGR: SD8179814987

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
185718
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Bury Guardian in 21 October, (1933)
Bury Guardian in 28 October, (1933)
Bury Guardian in 4 November, (1933)
Bury Guardian in 4 September, (1926)

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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