NOS 1 AND 2 DUCKWORTH HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163427
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: NOS 1 AND 2 DUCKWORTH HALL
Statutory Address:: NOS 1 AND 2 DUCKWORTH HALL

Numbers 1 and 2 Duckworth Hall. A house from the late 17th century, now divided into two, altered in the 19th century. — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163427
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: NOS 1 AND 2 DUCKWORTH HALL
Statutory Address 1:: NOS 1 AND 2 DUCKWORTH HALL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: NOS 1 AND 2 DUCKWORTH HALL

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Wyre (District Authority)
Parish:: Claughton
National Grid Reference:: SD 53029 42240

Details

CLAUGHTON SD 54 SW Nos 1 and 2 8/57 Duckworth Hall 17-4-1967 - II House, now divided into 2, late C17, altered C19. Sandstone rubble on ground floor, with brick above. Lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys with 3 main bays. 1st floor windows of 3 lights with timber mullions and glazing bars. Ground-floor windows have modern frames; the left-hand bay has 2 windows. Between the 1st and 2nd bays there are 2 small 1st floor windows. Between the 3rd and 4th bays there is a small stair window. Between the 1st and 2nd bays is a gabled stone porch with carved bargeboards. Chimneys to left of porch and on right-hand gable. Inside, the left-hand room, now a separate house, has a chamfered and stopped firehood bressumer between 2 hearth posts. On the 1st floor are 2 original doors, one to a closet beside the firehood. This gives access to a cupboard within the former firehood area, with a seat, said to have been a priest's hide. The right-hand house was not accessible at time of survey, but is said to have a firehood bressumer, ovolo-moulded beams, and a cupboard in the rear wall of the hearth with a carved door. The building will be described and illustrated by Watson, R.C. and McClintock, M.E. in their forthcoming book on houses in the Claughton area.

Listing NGR: SD5302942240

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Legacy System number:: 185446
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.