Stakes

STAKES

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1163248
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
Stakes
Statutory Address:
STAKES
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1163248
Date first listed:
16-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
Stakes
Statutory Address 1:
STAKES

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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
STAKES

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Ribble Valley (District Authority)
Parish:
Bowland Forest Low
National Grid Reference:
SD 64643 43672

Details

SD 64 SE BOWLAND FOREST LOW

16/34 Stakes

- II* House, early C17th. Slobbered rubble with slate roof. T-plan, 2 storeys. West wall of 5 bays with weathered plinth. Windows have inner hollow chamfer, outer chamfer, and hood. On the ground floor the window to bay one is blocked, bay 2 has a sashed window with glazing bars and the remains of a C17th surround, bay 3 has one of 4 lights with mullions, bay 4 has a cross window, and bay 5 a 6-light mullioned and transomed window. The 1st floor windows are mullioned and of 4, 2, 4, 3 and 3 lights. The chimneys, with moulded copings and weathered offsets, are between bays 2 and 3 and between bays 4 and 5. The gables have copings with kneelers. Both have a 10-light mullioned and transomed window on each floor, the north gable also having a circular moulded attic window with hood. The east wall of the main house has,to the south of the wing, a blocked window with hood at the left on each floor. To the right is a 2-light mullioned window on the 1st floor with a door with plain stone surround below. To the north of the wing the east wall has a brick lean-to addition with a blocked window with hood above. To the right on the 1st floor is a 4-light mullioned window. Below is a hood mould to a blocked window, with a door with plain reveals set within it. The south wall of the east wing is of 2 bays, with cross windows on the ground floor and 2-light mullioned windows on the 1st floor, all with hoods. Between is a doorway with a cyma moulding which continues around a shaped lintel. The north wall of the wing has 2 former 2-light windows with hoods on the 1st floor. On the ground floor to the left is a blocked window with hood. Cutting into it on the right is a doorway blocked to form a window, with a cyma moulding and with a lintel with date and initials remove. Above is a plaque with moulded border: 'NVNC MEA MOX HVIVS SED POSTEA NESCIO CVIVS NEMO SIBI NATVS'. This is an unusual position for a main doorway and may have been moved. The east gable has a chimney. Interior. The northern fireplace of the main range has a wide moulded segmental arch, with an outer chamfer around the voussoirs. The pantry, at the south end, has a very large sandstone slab on a brick base. The rear wing has a dividing wall of vertical panels with moulded muntins and rails. The dog-leg stair has 3 flights with square moulded newels and turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SD6464343672

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
183085
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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