Skull House
SKULL HOUSE, BEACON VIEW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073003
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Skull House
- Statutory Address:
- SKULL HOUSE, BEACON VIEW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073003
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Skull House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SKULL HOUSE, BEACON VIEW
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:
- SKULL HOUSE, BEACON VIEW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wrightington
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 52324 09975
Details
WRIGHTINGTON BEACON VIEW SD 50 NW Appley Bridge
10/89 Skull House 28-5-1981 II
House. Probably late C17 with earlier remains, altered C19 and C20. Pebbledashed brick and stone with remains of cruck frame. Artificial stone roof. North wall has central 2-storey gabled range which has a recessed 6-light chamfered mullioned window. The other windows have plain reveals. To its left is a shallow window and on the 1st floor a C20 casement. To the left and right are wings of one storey with attic. The left-hand one has a door to the right of a window. The right-hand one has a door to the left of its window. Chimneys to right of left-hand wing and towards rear of ridge of middle range. Attached to the east gable wall of the left-hand wing is a large water trough cut from a single block of sandstone. Interior: left-hand wing contains cruck truss partly visible in wall to left of doorway. The left-hand room has chamfered and stopped common joists and an ovolo-moulded spine beam. The joists are supported on a clamp pegged to the cruck tie-beam. At the junction between the middle range and the right-hand wing there is said to be a second cruck truss, now covered. The north room of the middle range has ovolo-moulded main joists. The south room has 2 similar joists which are lodged on a roll-moulded firehood bressumer. A C17 plank door opens into an extension on the west side.
Listing NGR: SD5232409975
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357865
- 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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