MORRIS FARMHOUSE

MORRIS FARMHOUSE, HOLLIN LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1164224
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: MORRIS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: MORRIS FARMHOUSE, HOLLIN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1164224
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: MORRIS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MORRIS FARMHOUSE, HOLLIN LANE

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:: MORRIS FARMHOUSE, HOLLIN 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 61108 18886

Details

HEAPEY HOLLIN LANE SD 61 NW 10/118 Morris Farmhouse 17.4. 67 - II*

Farmhouse. Dated 1693 on lintel of door. Squared sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof. Two-and-a-half-bay end-baffle-entry plan with lateral staircase between the principal bays. Two-and-a-half storeys; north-east facade of watershot coursing on a low chamfered plinth; doorway at right hand end has moulded surround and segmental head, the moulding stepped up in the centre to frame a carved heart, panelled raised letters "T" and "M" each side of this and A above, and a hoodmould over the lintel; ground T A 1693 floor has recessed mullion windows of 2, 3 and 3 lights, all with cavetto mullions and hoodmoulds, 1st floor has similar windows altered as casements but formerly of 3, 2, and 3 lights (that in the centre a stairlight set slightly lower) and over the door a single round-headed light, all these with hoodmoulds; under the eaves are little attic windows of 2, 2, and one light with flush mullions (all blocked). Stone coping to left gable and brick chimneys on both. Rear: a 2-light firewindow (opposite the front door), a king-mullioned housepart window of 6 lights, a small round-headed light to the staircase bay, and a 4-light parlour window altered to make a door in the left half; at 1st floor a round-headed light above the firewindow, and a 3-light window to each principal bay altered like those at the front: all these with hoodmoulds; 3 attic windows like those at the front; and a cut down chimney at the parlour corner. South gable wall has one round-headed single light at ground floor and 2 in attic. Modern single-storey addition at north end not included in the item. Interior: housepart has inglenook fireplace with large chamfered bressummer, 2 ovolo-moulded beams; parlour has one similar; service room has chamfered beam; 1st floor has similar; attic has axial and 2 lateral partitions to eaves level, of post and rail with wattle-and-daub panelling, making cubicles, presumably for migrant workers (many of whom have left graffiti with dates, mostly C19); roof of 2 collar trusses. Best example of unusual and very localised type on this plan: others are Cliff and Warth farmhouse in this parish, and Marsh Farmhouse, Brindle CP (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD6110818886

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Legacy System number:: 184372
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.