Cowlings Farmhouse

COWLINGS FARMHOUSE, 13, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1073006
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Cowlings Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
COWLINGS FARMHOUSE, 13, CHURCH LANE
Cowlings Farmhouse, Wrightington. House from 1677 with 19th and 20th century alterations.
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Date:
2002-05-16
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1073006
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Cowlings Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
COWLINGS FARMHOUSE, 13, CHURCH 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:
COWLINGS FARMHOUSE, 13, CHURCH LANE

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:
SD5336913518

Details

WRIGHTINGTON CHURCH LANE
SD 51 SW
5/92 No 13 (Cowlings Farmhouse)
22-2-1967
II

House. 1677 with C19 and C20 alterations. Scored render on stone base with
concrete tile roof. End baffle-entry plan. 2 storeys, 2 bays to right of 2-storey
gabled porch. Windows are C20 casements with plain reveals, stone sills, and stone
lintels. On the ground floor in the left-hand bay are paired windows. Below the 1st
floor window of the porch is a plaque inscribed: 'HAD RBF 1677'.Outer doorway has
rendered reveals and a segmental head with a keystone carved with a vase. The wooden
door frame of the inner doorway is ovolo-moulded and stopped. Gable chimneys: the
right-hand one is behind the ridge and the left-hand one has a projecting stack.


Listing NGR: SD5336913518

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

Legacy System number:
357868
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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