Higher Crombleholme Farmhouse

HIGHER CROMBLEHOLME FARMHOUSE, WHITECHAPEL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1073503
Date first listed:
13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Higher Crombleholme Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
HIGHER CROMBLEHOLME FARMHOUSE, WHITECHAPEL
Higher Crombleholme Farmhouse, Whitechapel, Goosnargh. A farmhouse from the 17th century, enlarged in the 18th century.
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1073503
Date first listed:
13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Higher Crombleholme Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
HIGHER CROMBLEHOLME FARMHOUSE, WHITECHAPEL

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

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:
HIGHER CROMBLEHOLME FARMHOUSE, WHITECHAPEL

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Preston (District Authority)
Parish:
Goosnargh
National Grid Reference:
SD 56421 42127

Details

SD 54 SE
2/79

GOOSNARGH
WHITECHAPEL
Higher Crombleholme Farmhouse

II
Farmhouse, C17, altered and enlarged in C18. Random rubble with quoins, the
front and right return walls covered with scored stucco painted white, 2-span
slate roofs with gable chimneys, the front roof with stone gable copings and
kneelers. Square plan formed by 3-bay C17 house with parallel rear addition.
Two and a half (front) and 2 storeys; gabled single-storey porch offset right
of centre, above this an altered 2-light double-chamfered mullion window
lacking the mullion, to the right one square recessed casement with glazing
bars on each floor, to the left one 2-light casement at ground floor. Left
gable wall has 2 double-chamfered mullion windows with hoodmoulds, 2 lights at
ground floor left, 4 lights at 1st floor right, remains of another 4-light
window at ground floor containing the lintel of a former door; and a blocked
attic light. Right gable wall has a long hoodmould on each floor including
the attic, which has one light patent. The addition has one square window
with square surround on each floor at this end, a doorway at the other end.
Interior: at each gable wall of the front part is a stone C18 fireplace with
corbelled jambs, that in the 1st bay with moulded surround and cornice, the
other plain.


Listing NGR: SD5642142127

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
185926
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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