Woodlands

WOODLANDS, PRESTON OLD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1163236
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Woodlands
Statutory Address:
WOODLANDS, PRESTON OLD ROAD
Woodlands, Preston Old Road. Former Old Road, Cherry Tree
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1163236
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
27-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:
Woodlands
Statutory Address 1:
WOODLANDS, PRESTON OLD ROAD

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:
WOODLANDS, PRESTON OLD ROAD

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

District:
Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Livesey
National Grid Reference:
SD 65293 26063

Details

SD 62 NE LIVESEY PRESTON OLD ROAD

2/39 Woodlands 24.11.1966 (Formerly listed under Preston - II Old Road,cherry Tree)

House, mid C19, now offices. Scored stucco with sandstone dressings, hipped slate roof on 2 levels with modillioned eaves cornice, various chimneys. Square plan 3x3 bays, 2 storeys, with lower service wing to right and rear. Front and left return walls symmetrical (except for 1st floor windows at front); front has 4 giant Tuscan pilasters, 1st floor sill band, centre doorcase of Tuscan pilaster jambs and fluted round arch with console keystone and cornice; all windows sashed: 2 tall windows with shouldered architraves and aprons at ground floor, a similar window above the door, two 1st floor windows in the 1st bay and one in the 3rd bay with plain surrounds. Left return wall has 1st floor sill band, centre doorway and 1st floor window with shouldered architraves, flanked at ground floor by canted bays with cornices and low pediments and at 1st floor by windows with plain surrounds. Service wing set back to right has rusticated quoins, one window each floor to the front (matching other front windows), and at the side a centre door with segmental-headed architrave, and 2 windows each floor. Rear wall has, inter alia, one coupled window at ground floor and 2 above. Interior altered.

Listing NGR: SD6529326063

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
184712
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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