Eagle Tower Farmhouse

EAGLE TOWER FARMHOUSE, CHAPEL LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1164131
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:
Eagle Tower Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
EAGLE TOWER FARMHOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
Eagle Tower Farmhouse (once known as Eagle Tower), Heapey, Chorley. A former farmhouse now house, dated 1704 on lintel.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1164131
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Eagle Tower Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
EAGLE TOWER FARMHOUSE, CHAPEL LANE

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
EAGLE TOWER FARMHOUSE, CHAPEL LANE

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:
Heapey
National Grid Reference:
SD 60192 20298

Details

HEAPEY CHAPEL LANE (off) SD 62 SW 6/110 Eagle Tower Farmhouse (formerly listed as Eagle 17.4.67 Tower) GV II

Farmhouse now house. Dated 1704 on lintel; much enlarged and altered. Cement-washed render on sandstone, red tile roof (replacing stone slate). The listable part is the south end, one bay and 2 storeys, which has a doorway near the south corner of the west gable wall with shaped lintel lettered in relief M , a hoodmould over it, and at ground floor of I Y 17 04 the south side a king-mullion 6-light window with recessed ovolo-moulded mullions, 2 modern windows above, and east gable wall of coursed rubble at ground floor and random rubble above. Other features of less interest. Large modern wing to north not included in the item. Interior: baffle-entry in end wall alongside heck with a stone slab on the outer side and a timber post and rail on the inner side; inglenook with chamfered bressummer, 2 stop-chamfered beams supported by this; and 2 similar beams at 1st floor.

Listing NGR: SD6019220298

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Legacy System number:
184363
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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