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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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 185815
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.