Ashlands
ASHLANDS, TURNPIKE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164198
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ashlands
- Statutory Address:
- ASHLANDS, TURNPIKE
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/06415/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164198
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ashlands
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHLANDS, TURNPIKE
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:
- ASHLANDS, TURNPIKE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Rossendale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 83509 22529
Details
SD 82 SW
6/236
RAWTENSTALL, Newchurch,
TURNPIKE
Ashlands
II
Large house, dated 1863 at rear, for Samuel Ashworth Lord. Sandstone ashlar
(rear rock-faced), low-pitched slate roof with 4 chimney stacks. L-shaped:
rectangular main block with service wing attached at rear left corner.
Basement and 2 storeys, in Renaissance style; rusticated quoins, plinth,
string course, moulded cornice, low parapet; south (entrance) front of 3
bays, the 3rd projecting and having an open-pedimented gable: square single
storey porch in the angle, with panelled pilasters and round-headed arch with
keystone, one window to the left and 2 above: these and most other windows are
segmental-headed and sashed with shouldered architraves and prominent moulded
sills, but that to left of porch has a cornice with figured consoles
(portraying daughters of Samuel Lord): ground floor of gabled bay to right has
a chamfered rectangular bay with 5 tall round-headed windows, window above
this has a segmental pediment with carved consoles, and carving on the window
head including the head of Samuel Lord. Re-entrant wall and service wing to
left have simpler openings; right return wall (to garden) has 4 windows on
each floor, those at ground floor with moulded cornices and carved consoles.
Rear: plinth incorporates datestone inscribed S A L 1863; stairlight treated as
oriel with 3 lights rounded at both ends and 2 circular lights. Interior:
open well stone staircase with half-landing, ornamental iron balusters;
hallway, stairwell and landing all have elaborate moulded plaster frieze,
cornice and beams; drawing room and dining room have foliated pattern moulded
plaster friezes, the former also ceiling medallions containing paintings.
Plaster work said to be by Italian craftsmen otherwise engaged on decoration
of Manchester theatres. History: Samuel Ashworth Lord, cotton manufacturer
and merchant, of Gog Hills Mills etc.
Listing NGR: SD8350922529
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185815
- 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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