Balshaws Farmhouse
BALSHAWS FARMHOUSE, DRUMACRE LANE WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073055
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Balshaws Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BALSHAWS FARMHOUSE, DRUMACRE LANE WEST
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073055
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Balshaws Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BALSHAWS FARMHOUSE, DRUMACRE LANE WEST
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:
- BALSHAWS FARMHOUSE, DRUMACRE LANE WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- South Ribble (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Longton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 49093 24843
Details
SD 42SE LONGTON off DRUMACRE LANE WEST
7/65 Balshaws Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse, C17 (said to have datestone c.1628, now concealed). Rendered brick on low stone base, slate roof with red ridging tiles; some stone quoins. Linear plan of 2½ bays (that at left end shorter), entry at left end. Two storeys with outshut to rear of left half. Single-storey pitched-roof porch at left side; 3 casement windows to each floor of front, one small sliding sash window at 1st floor of left gable. Rear wall has one sliding sash window to each floor, a modern door replacing window to 3rd bay. Stone quoins visible at 2 corners. One ridge chimney stack near left end, and a chimney to left side of outshut. Interior: middle bay has inglenook fireplace with ovolo moulded bressummer and salt cupboard with incised diamond pattern and central letter "T", 2 bridging beams (one boxed, the other incorporated in partition to rear passage), and a former door to service room now blocked and concealed. Purlin roof with clay floor, blocked 3-light brick mullion windows in both gables.
Listing NGR: SD4909324843
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357970
- 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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