Nos 1 and 2 Clifton Hill and Adjacent Chapel
NOS 1 AND 2 CLIFTON HILL AND ADJACENT CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163502
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 1 and 2 Clifton Hill and Adjacent Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 1 AND 2 CLIFTON HILL AND ADJACENT CHAPEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163502
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 1 and 2 Clifton Hill and Adjacent Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOS 1 AND 2 CLIFTON HILL AND ADJACENT CHAPEL
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:
- NOS 1 AND 2 CLIFTON HILL AND ADJACENT CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Wyre (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Forton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 48008 51221
Details
FORTON No's 1 and 2
SD 45 SE
Clifton Hill and adjacent chapel
1/83
17-4-1967
- II
Country house, now divided into 2 houses, 1820 by Richard Gillow.
Sandstone ashlar with hipped slate roofs. 2 storeys. Comprises a central
block with flanking pavilions. Central block has clasping pilasters and a
cornice, and one bay to each side of a 2-bay pedimented projection.
Windows sashed with glazing bars. On the ground floor the right-hand bay
and the right-hand link to the pavilion are covered by a glazed lean-to.
In front of the central projection a single-storey porch with cornice and
blocking course projects further forwards. 0n each side of the door there
is a blind recess. The door has an architrave, and above it an entablature
breaks forward in a shallow ellipse and is supported on 2 Ionic columns.
Each return wall of the porch has a window with pointer head and Gothick
glazing. The pavilions have corner pilasters, a central blind arched
recess, and a window to the left with ashlar reveals. Above the left-hand
link is an added tower of 2 storeys with attic. The garden front is of 3
bays, with one-bay pavilions. The central bay is bowed and has a
tripartite window on each floor. The pavilions also have tripartite
windows, except for the right-hand one on the ground floor which is
modern. Interior has a geometrical stair, with stick balusters and
mahogany handrail, in an oval well. House contains glass from the Low
Countries. Adjoining to the south-west is a former Roman Catholic chapel,
now being converted into living accommodation, said to be of 1878 although
it appears to be of more than one build. Its front wall has twin gables
with projecting purlins, the side walls having round-headed windows.
Inside, there is an open timber roof with 2 king-post trusses, and a
gallery with pitch pine front. The northern end is divided off by 2
adjoining plastered round arches of different sizes, each with a painted
inscription.
Listing NGR: SD4800851221
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185474
- 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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