White Hill Farmhouse
WHITE HILL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073504
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- White Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HILL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073504
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- White Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HILL FARMHOUSE
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:
- WHITE HILL FARMHOUSE
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 58222 40776
Details
SD 54 SE GOOSNARGH WHITE HILL
2/81 White Hill Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, later C17, altered in C19. Coursed sandstone rubble with plinth and quoins (front painted white, rear rendered), slate roof. Modified T-plan: one-bay main range with projecting porch, 2-bay crosswing with stair turret in rear angle. Chimney at left gable, 2 side-wall chimneys to wing. Two storeys and garrets; 2-storey gabled porch close to left end has a moulded Tudor-arched outer doorway with a hoodmould from which rises a carved stone panel displaying a coat of arms with cresting (arms of Aughton branch of the Hesketh family), a 16-pane sashed window above; outer doorway contains modern double doors, inner has heavily studded oak door; narrow re-entrant to the right has a 3-light chamfered mullion window at ground floor, a blocked square window above; wing has a hoodmould to a former ground floor window in the re-entrant side, two 16-pane sashes on each floor of the gable. Right return wall of wing has hoodmould to a former window at 1st floor of the front bay, a single-storey lean-to porch to the other. Left end wall has a transomed 6-light window at 1st floor; rear has, inter alia, a 5-light chamfered mullion window with hoodmould at ground floor, a stairlight cross window and a garret light. Interior: altered, but contains large beams with tongue-stopped chamfer, principally in the present passage, in the front bay of the wing, and in the main range behind the porch, one of these on a large moulded corbel, and another, also supported by a corbel, flush with the rear wall of this part. History: built by Hesketh family (descended from Heskeths of Rufford) who were Catholics, inter-married with the Threlfalls of Ashes (Church Lane, q.v.), took part in the 1715 Jacobite rebellion, were attainted of high treason and consequently forfeited their estates. Reference: Fishwick Goosnargh pp. 159-62 (Other hall houses in this parish with comparable history include Bullsnape Hall and Blake Hall and Ashes and White Lee farmhouses, q.v.)
Listing NGR: SD5822240776
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185928
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fishwick, , Goosnargh, (1871), 159-62
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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