Tongue Hill Farmhouse
TONGUE HILL FARMHOUSE, BOWDEN AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163413
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Tongue Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TONGUE HILL FARMHOUSE, BOWDEN AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163413
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tongue Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TONGUE HILL FARMHOUSE, BOWDEN AVENUE
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:
- TONGUE HILL FARMHOUSE, BOWDEN AVENUE
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 64620 26448
Details
SD 62 NW PLEASINGTON (off) BOWDEN AVENUE
sD 646 264
1/47 Tongue Hill Farmhouse 24-11-96 (Formerly listed as Tongue Hill - II off Victoria Road)
Farmhouse, dated 1735 above door, now house. Sandstone rubble on plinth, with quoins, stone slate roof with one chimney on the ridge at the junction of the 1st and 2nd bays, and chimneys at both gables. Rectangular 3-bay plan. Two storeys; low let floor band; doorway between 2nd and 3rd bays has simple ashlar surround with moulded cornice in the band, and at 1st floor above this is a square datestone with moulded surround, inscribed P ; three 4-light windows on each R E 1735 floor, all recessed with hollow-chamfered mullions. Left return wall has, set back, a single-storey lean-to, and at 1st floor a similar 4-light window with a hoodmould. Rear has a band and windows similar to those at the front: 4 at ground floor, of 3, 2, 2 and 3 lights, and 2 at 1st floor, both of 2 lights with hoodmoulds; between these a stairlight and a smaller window. Interior: quarter-round moulded beams in all ground floor rooms, and 2 others in the roof; longitudinal partition giving the impression of a 6-room plan, the rear rooms much smaller.
Listing NGR: SD6459826418
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184720
- 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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