Willow Bank Farmhouse

WILLOW BANK FARMHOUSE, BENTLEY'S FARM LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1139131
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:
Willow Bank Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
WILLOW BANK FARMHOUSE, BENTLEY'S FARM LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1139131
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:
Willow Bank Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
WILLOW BANK FARMHOUSE, BENTLEY'S FARM 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WILLOW BANK FARMHOUSE, BENTLEY'S FARM LANE

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

District:
Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Whitley
National Grid Reference:
SJ 61916 80138

Details

SJ 68 SW WHITLEY C.P. BENTLEY'S FARM LANE North Side, Higher Whitley

2/109 Willow Bank Farmhouse

8/1/70

GV II

Farmhouse, circa 1820. Brown brick; gabled grey slate roof of wide span. 2 storeys; 3 windows. Door of 6 fielded panels in doorcase with attached Tuscan columns; plain fanlight; 16-pane recessed sashes with flat gauged-brick arches and projecting stone cills. Moulded cornice. Round-arched windows to attic in end gables, that to left altered; tall round-arched stair window at rear; 6-panelled door at rear and in left gable-end. 2 flush chimneys on right gable; 1 in front of ridge on left gable. Interior: Diagonal-boarded inner face to front door; 6-panel doors; broad-board door to rear wing; double-depth plan; round archway from hall; open-string dogleg stair with shaped brackets, stick balusters and curtail.

Listing NGR: SJ6191680138

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
57575
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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