South Tunley Farmhouse
SOUTH TUNLEY FARMHOUSE, OLD WASH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073017
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- South Tunley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH TUNLEY FARMHOUSE, OLD WASH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073017
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- South Tunley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH TUNLEY FARMHOUSE, OLD WASH 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:
- SOUTH TUNLEY FARMHOUSE, OLD WASH 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:
- SD 53498 12203
Details
WRIGHTINGTON OLD WASH LANE (off) SD 51 SW 5/109 South Tunley Farmhouse 19-11-1951 GV II
House. 1675, altered C19. Sandstone rubble with concrete tile roof. Half- H plan. 2 storeys. Continuous plinth. Quoins show some tooling of C19 type. Cross-wings are each of one bay and have windows of 2 lights with projecting moulded stone surrounds and flat-faced mullions. Recessed centre has a 3-light mullioned window of C18 type on each floor. Redder sandstone around these windows suggests rebuilding. To the right is a single-storey gabled porch which has a chamfered doorway with canted head. Above the doorway is a stone inscribed: '1675 RHM'. Chimneys, with brick caps, in line with doorway and on ridge of left-hand (south-west) cross-wing. The latter has 2 shafts linked by bricks placed diagonally. Interior: central room has firehood bressumer and a heck forming a baffle entry. The 2 axial beams have quarter-round mouldings. The front room of the left-hand cross-wing contains some C17 panelling with scribed mouldings, including a fireplace surround inscribed: 'R-M 1676'. Other rooms not examined.
Listing NGR: SD5349812203
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357887
- 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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