Higher Twist Field Farmhouse
HIGHER TWIST FIELD FARMHOUSE, BILLINGE END ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163366
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Twist Field Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER TWIST FIELD FARMHOUSE, BILLINGE END ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163366
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Twist Field Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER TWIST FIELD FARMHOUSE, BILLINGE END 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.
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:
- HIGHER TWIST FIELD FARMHOUSE, BILLINGE END ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pleasington
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 64491 27802
Details
SD 62 NW PLEASINGTON (off) BILLINGE END ROAD
SD 644 277
1/45 Higher Twist Field Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse, probably C17, raised probably c.1800, now house. Whitewashed sandstone rubble with quoins, corrugated sheet roof with one ridge chimney. Rectangular 3-bay plan with a through passage behind the stack, probably originally a single-storey longhouse. Two storeys, the upper level of the walls noticeably set back and lacking quoins; modern single-storey kitchen now attached to centre of front; right of this is a chamfered doorway (a matching doorway in the rear wall opposed to this), left of it at ground floor 2 horizontal rectangular windows with chamfered surrounds, which were probably originally 2 and 3 light mullioned windows; at the right end a former doorway is now blocked and mostly concealed by external stone steps to a 1st floor loft door (an inserted window left of the steps). At 1st floor are 2 windows, one square, other altered or inserted. Rear: in addition to the chamfered doorway there is a 2-light flush-mullion window to the 3rd bay, a small window (perhaps formerly mullioned) to the right of this, 2 altered ground floor windows, and 2 square 1st floor windows. Interior: housepart in middle bay has large inglenook with heck, chamfered bressummer (supporting 2 chamfered beams), and fireplace with stone jambs which have moulded shoulders.
Listing NGR: SD6449127802
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184718
- 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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