Gorsuch Hall
GORSUCH HALL, GORSUCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073115
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Gorsuch Hall
- Statutory Address:
- GORSUCH HALL, GORSUCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073115
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Gorsuch Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GORSUCH HALL, GORSUCH 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:
- GORSUCH HALL, GORSUCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Scarisbrick
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 37873 11936
Details
SCARISBRICK GORSUCH LANE SD 31 SE 8/25 Gorsuch Hall 11.10.1968 - II
Farmhouse. Probably c.1760, but with restoration date 1895 over door. Handmade brick in Flemish bond, on sandstone plinth, with sandstone dressings. Double-depth 3-bay plan. Three storeys, symmetrical, in classical style, with rusticated stone quoins, stone bands on 2 levels, moulded gutter cornice, gable chimneys; central door with 6 fielded panels, stone doorcase and lintel with pseudo-voussoirs and keystone; 2 wide vertical rectangular windows at ground floor, 3 square windows at 1st floor, and 3 horizontal rectangular windows at 2nd floor, all with moulded sills and splayed heads, and the heads of those at ground and 1st floor matching that of the door; all with altered glazing. Both gable walls have some inserted or altered windows at the lower levels; the rear has a 2-storey extension to the 1st bay, a large rectangular window with splayed head at ground and 1st floors of the 2nd bay, a smaller similar window in the centre at 1st floor, and 3 smaller altered windows at 2nd floor. Interior: altered (presumably in 1895), and later Victorian staircase installed in central entrance passage rising from the front. Externally a good example of mid-Georgian domestic architecture.
Listing NGR: SD3787311936
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357727
- 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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