Wychnor

WYCHNOR, LIGHTFOOT LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1073528
Date first listed:
13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Wychnor
Statutory Address:
WYCHNOR, LIGHTFOOT LANE
Wychnor.  A farmhouse from the mid eighteenth century, altered and  now two separate dwellings.
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Date:
1999-09-06
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1073528
Date first listed:
13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
Wychnor
Statutory Address 1:
WYCHNOR, LIGHTFOOT 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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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:
WYCHNOR, LIGHTFOOT LANE

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 51968 33484

Details

SD 53 SW FULWOOD LIGHTFOOT LANE

7/32 Wychnor

II

Farmhouse, mid-C18, altered, now 2 dwellings. White-painted scored stucco on brick, with some quoins, slate roof with 2 ridge chimneys. Three bays, with later additions to left end and to rear at right end. Two storeys: 1st floor band, C19 single-storey gabled porch offset left of centre, an inserted door to the 1st bay, windows mostly vertical rectangular with modern casements. Rear altered. Interior: entrance passage from front door leads to rear staircase which is dog-legged, has open string, scrolled brackets, 2 turned balusters on each steps, and a moulded handrail, the void beneath the upper flight enclosed by a cupboard of fielded panels; other doors matching this; in the sitting room a large rectangular stone fireplace with corbelled jambs, moulded surround and cornice.

Listing NGR: SD5196833484

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
185879
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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