Hesketh Farmhouse
HESKETH FARMHOUSE, HOWICK CROSS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073060
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Hesketh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HESKETH FARMHOUSE, HOWICK CROSS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073060
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Hesketh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HESKETH FARMHOUSE, HOWICK CROSS 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:
- HESKETH FARMHOUSE, HOWICK CROSS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- South Ribble (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Penwortham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 49918 28004
Details
SD 42NE PENWORTHAM HOWICK CROSS LANE
3/82 Hesketh Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse, now house, dated 1700 but probably earlier and extended at that date. Brick (some recent) slate roof, with some stone slates at rear and on outshut. Plan T-shaped with cross-wing on right. Two storeys with garrets, one ridge chimneystack to each range of building. Segmental-headed doorway to cross-passage near the angle, with plank door and datestone over with incised cursive lettering:
Thomas Walton Ellin his wife and Christopher their son Ano Domi 1700
Windows are now casements with segmental heads, but there are blocked former window openings, some with C17-type brick hoodmoulds in left gable. Rear and side walls of crosswing have brick bands. There is a blocked doorway beneath the stairlight window in the crosswing. Interior: housepart in 2nd bay has hearth backing onto cross-passage, blocked inglenook with cambered bressumer and heck-post, (former door to dairy in 1st bay now blocked); in several rooms beams with stopped ovolo moulding;dog-leg staircase in centre of crosswing has string, turned balusters, moulded handrail with raised grip and is lettered on the string "T W E 1700"; a quarter-turn stair of similar pattern from 1st floor to attic of 1st bay. Door from cross-passage to housepart is of heavily studded planks(probably original entrance); some other doors on both floors have 2 bolection-moulded panels and similarly-moulded diamond-shaped insets. Brick smoke hoods to both hearths. Roof to 1st and 2nd bays has 2 trusses composed of tie-beams, collars, and 2 pairs of trenched windbraced purlins, and junction wall has a 2-light unglazed brick mullion window, indicating original gable wall.
Listing NGR: SD4991828004
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357987
- 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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