Davenport House Farm
DAVENPORT HOUSE FARM, CARR LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139589
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Davenport House Farm
- Statutory Address:
- DAVENPORT HOUSE FARM, CARR LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06985/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139589
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Davenport House Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- DAVENPORT HOUSE FARM, CARR 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.
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:
- DAVENPORT HOUSE FARM, CARR LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chorley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 82660 78956
Details
SJ 87 NW CHORLEY C.P. CARR LANE
7/17 Davenport House Farm
GV II
House (formerly Farmhouse). Late C17. Flemish bond brick, slate roof. 2 storeys with attic. North front: Vitrified headers, 3 bays. Doorway slightly to right of centre with flat (replacement) lintel. Cambered relieving arch above of headers with wooden panel to tympanum. Ground floor windows to either side of 5 lights with chamfered stone surrounds and mullions. 3 panes to each light. Double cambered relieving arches above joining over the middle light. Similar to first floor. String course between floors of 2 rows of stretchers supported on alternately projecting headers. Further string course above first floor of 3 rows of overlapping stretchers. C18 outhouse to right and C19 outhouse to left. South front: double gabled. String course above ground floor as to north front. String course above first floor of 2 rows of stretchers sandwiching a row of canted headers. C19 door and porch to right of centre. Ground floor left hand window of 3 lights (originally 4) with chamfered stone mullions and lintel of headers extending to left indicating placing of original 4th light. 2 similar windows to first floor, the left hand one also originally of 4 lights indicated by joint in brickwork (the extended lintel is not here present). 2-light chamfered window to attic with lintel of brick headers. Similar window under same gable originally to right and slightly lower, now reduced to one 2-pane light and given new wooden surround. C20, 2-light window and french windows to ground floor right replacing a 3-light window with chamfered stone surround and mullions. East side: 4-light window with chamfered stone surround and mullions and double relieving arch to ground floor left. Other windows and doors are C19 replacements. Good contemporary staircase.
Listing NGR: SJ8266078956
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58392
- 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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