Church House Farmhouse

CHURCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, PLUMPTON LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1073485
Date first listed:
13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Church House Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
CHURCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, PLUMPTON LANE
Church House Farmhouse, on Plumpton Lane in Woodplumpton, Preston. A farmhouse from the early to mid 17th century.
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Date:
2004-05-31
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1073485
Date first listed:
13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Church House Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, PLUMPTON 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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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:
CHURCH HOUSE FARMHOUSE, PLUMPTON LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lancashire
District:
Preston (District Authority)
Parish:
Woodplumpton
National Grid Reference:
SD 49966 34446

Details

SD 43 SE WOODPLUMPTON PLUMPTON LANE

6/137 Church House Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, now house. Early to mid-C17, altered. Handmade brick, slate roof. Three-bay baffle-entry plan. Two storeys; 1st floor band, the wall above this now covered by C20 applied "half-timbering" with plastered panels; board door in line with ridge chimney at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, four 4-pane sashes at ground floor and 3 casements above. Rear also altered. Interior: ground floor retains principal elements of C17 structure: back-to-back inglenook fireplaces in 2nd and 3rd bays, the former with stopped 1/4-round moulded bressummer and firewindow (altered), the latter with stop-chamfered bressumer; these rooms have beams matching the bressumers, lateral in the 2nd bay and longitudinal in the 3rd; staircase off rear left corner of 2nd bay, former staircase in front right corner of 3rd bay removed; service-end doorways from 2nd bay.

Listing NGR: SD4996634446

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
185984
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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