Lower Top O'th' Bank Farmhouse
LOWER TOP O'TH' BANK FARMHOUSE, TUNSTEAD LANE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072842
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Top O'th' Bank Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER TOP O'TH' BANK FARMHOUSE, TUNSTEAD LANE
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2003-08-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/10971/02
- Rights:
- © Mr John Riley. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072842
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Top O'th' Bank Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER TOP O'TH' BANK FARMHOUSE, TUNSTEAD 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:
- LOWER TOP O'TH' BANK FARMHOUSE, TUNSTEAD 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 85723 22550
Details
SD 82 SE BACUP TUNSTEAD LANE Tunstead
7/75 Lower Top o'th' Bank Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse substantially late C18 but incorporating datestones of 1682 and 1681 in rear wall; now house; with attached barn at right end. House is 3 bays and 2 storeys and barn continued to right is 3 bays; front wall of watershot coursed sandstone, rear wall of random rubble (house) and coursed sandstone with quoins (barn), roof of slate (house), and stone slate (barn). House has 3 stepped triple-light windows on each floor and plain doorway between the 2nd and 3rd bays; barn has large round-headed wagon entrances opposed in middle bay, an inserted window to the left and a doorway altered as a window at the right end. Rear wall of house appears to have been raised, the upper level consisting of watershot coursed blocks; doorway has humped lintel with crudely incised lettering "1681 HM RH", and at the junction with the barn, which steps out, another datestone partly obscured by the barn wall has raised lettering "1682". Interior: altered, but through-passage suggests early original plan; 3rd bay has vaulted cellar with well and keeping stone.
Listing NGR: SD8572322550
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185652
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 10-Jun-2026 at 17:31:37.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.