Dike House Farmhouse and Attached Barn
DIKE HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, BURNLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072861
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Dike House Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address:
- DIKE HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, BURNLEY ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/10971/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072861
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Dike House Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- DIKE HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, BURNLEY 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:
- DIKE HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, BURNLEY ROAD
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 86497 24397
Details
SD 82 SE BACUP (off) BURNLEY ROAD
7/19 Dike House Farmhouse and attached barn - - II
Farmhouse, dated 1720 on porch, now derelict, with barn attached at lower level at east end. Coursed sandstone rubble, stone slate roof with gable chimneys and gable copings with kneelers. Double pile 2-bay plan, 2 storeys; projecting single storey gabled porch at right end covering junction with barn has plain doorway offset left and datestone in gable with a recessed shouldered panel containing raised decoration and lettering: a crudely carved radiant sun in the head, a flower beneath this flanked by the letters "I" and "L" and "1720" below. All window openings are now boarded or blocked: a rectangular window in the porch, 2 horizontal rectangular windows at ground floor and an inserted doorway at the left end, and 4 square windows at 1st floor (most windows have flat brick heads); rear wall has several similar blocked windows, one at 1st floor with a chamfered mullion, and there is a sunk dairy built into the slope to the rear of the 1st bay. Barn at right end has sliding door to front, large lean-to at rear.
Listing NGR: SD8649724397
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185596
- 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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