Beech House
BEECH HOUSE, WATER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163561
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Beech House
- Statutory Address:
- BEECH HOUSE, WATER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163561
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Beech House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEECH HOUSE, WATER STREET
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:
- BEECH HOUSE, WATER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brindle
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 59945 24193
Details
BRINDLE WATER STREET SD 52 SE 5/56 Beech House 17.4.67 - II
Farmhouse (or inn?), now house. Early C18, altered. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, slate roof with brick chimneys on ridge and at both gables. Three bays, with rear outshut to the centre and right. Two storeys; doorway offset to right has moulded surround and prominent concave cornice; 3 windows on each floor, those at ground floor all formerly with recessed chamfered mullions, of 2, 4, and 3 lights, but all mullions removed except in centre of middle window, and those above all altered and square. Rear has doorway in re-entrant of outshut, a stairlight in the rear of the outshut with chamfered mullion and 2 diamond-lattice leaded lights, a 2-light cellar window below this, and remains of 3 other formerly mullioned windows. Left gable has blocked former doorway near to front corner. Interior: C18 fireplace with corbelled jambs and moulded lintel; doglegged staircase with closed string, slim turned balusters, moulded handrail; stairlight window has apparently original glazing with a small rectangular opening pane set into the diamond lattice.
Listing NGR: SD5994524193
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184307
- 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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