Matshead Farmhouse
MATSHEAD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163446
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Matshead Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MATSHEAD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163446
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Matshead Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MATSHEAD FARMHOUSE
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:
- MATSHEAD FARMHOUSE
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 51814 40922
Details
CLAUGHTON SD 54 SW 8/63 Matshead Farmhouse 17-4-1967 - II House, 1703, with exterior extensively altered c.1980. Rendered brick with slate roof. Stone window dressings and drip courses now replaced by cast concrete replicas. L-plan. 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays, with 2 drip courses. Ground and 1st floors have cross windows. Attic has 2-light mullioned windows. Door, in central bay under slated Canopy, has moulded stone surround with shaped lintel inscribed: 'RM 1703'. Chimney on rear wall of front range, between 1st and 2nd bays. Drip courses continue on left-hand return wall. Gable of front range of 2 bays with windows similar to those at the front. The left-hand bay is blank on the ground floor, The rear wing has one bay, with a 6-light mullioned and transomed ground-floor window and a cross window above. Interior has exposed ovolo-moulded main ceiling joists and a similar firehood bressumer in the left-hand front room.
Listing NGR: SD5181440922
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185452
- 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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