Eight Detached Houses Forming the Childrens Homes at the Harris Orphanage
EIGHT DETACHED HOUSES FORMING THE CHILDRENS HOMES AT THE HARRIS ORPHANAGE, GARSTANG ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073526
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Eight Detached Houses Forming the Childrens Homes at the Harris Orphanage
- Statutory Address:
- EIGHT DETACHED HOUSES FORMING THE CHILDRENS HOMES AT THE HARRIS ORPHANAGE, GARSTANG ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01731/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1073526
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Eight Detached Houses Forming the Childrens Homes at the Harris Orphanage
- Statutory Address 1:
- EIGHT DETACHED HOUSES FORMING THE CHILDRENS HOMES AT THE HARRIS ORPHANAGE, GARSTANG ROAD
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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:
- EIGHT DETACHED HOUSES FORMING THE CHILDRENS HOMES AT THE HARRIS ORPHANAGE, GARSTANG ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 53093 32346
Details
SD 53 SW FULWOOD GARSTANG ROAD
7/29 Eight detached houses forming the children's homes at the Harris Orphanage (formerly listed with "The Harris Children's Home") 15.1.1985 GV II
Eight houses built in rows of 4 north and south of a green, as "village homes" for the Harris Orphanage, 1885-88, by Benjamin Sykes of Garlick, Park, and Sykes, for trustees of E.R. Harris. Accrington red brick with bands and dressings of sandstone, slate roofs with red ridging tiles. Slightly varied in plan and form, but all like conventional suburban middle class semi-detached houses of the period, in Vernacular Revival style, with decorated gables (some of applied timber, others of diaper and similar patterns of projecting headers), large wooden mullion and transom windows, some in canted bays, some in hipped gableted dormers (and some with altered glazing), and tall Tudor-style chimneys. Not the first, but nevertheless a good and fairly early example of the family-unit system for such institutions, in sharp contrast to the classification system of the New Poor Law, applied less than 20 years earlier at the Preston Union Workhouse, Watling Street Road (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD5309332346
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185876
- 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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