Town End Farmhouse

TOWN END FARMHOUSE, LOW ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1164371
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1967
List Entry Name:
Town End Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
TOWN END FARMHOUSE, LOW ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1164371
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1967
List Entry Name:
Town End Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
TOWN END FARMHOUSE, LOW ROAD

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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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:
TOWN END FARMHOUSE, LOW ROAD

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:
Halton-with-Aughton
National Grid Reference:
SD 50346 64840

Details

SD 50 64
17/103

HALTON-WITH-AUGHTON
LOW ROAD,
Halton
Town End Farmhouse

4.10.1967

II
Farmhouse. '1672 WEG' on door lintel. Slobbered sandstone rubble with
stone slate roof. Main front faces west towards garden. 2-unit plan with
gable entrance from road and rear wing of slightly later date. 2 storeys
with attic, with cellar under south end entered from ground level. All
windows on facade mullioned with rebated and chamfered surrounds. To the
left a 6-light window with a king mullion on both floors. In the middle
of the facade 2 stair windows at intermediate level: 2 lights below and
one above. At the right-hand end a 3-light and a 2-light cellar window,
both partly below ground. No windows on the ground floor, but a 2-light
window on the 1st floor. Both gables coped with kneelers, with a chimney
cap on the south gable. North gable has doorway with moulding of jambs
continued around shaped lintel with hood mould over. Rear wall has
chamfered cellar doorway to south with a 3-light rebated and chamfered
mullioned window to its right. Above on the ground floor is a former 4-
light window with one mullion removed. To the right is a doorway with
plain reveals reached by a flight of stone steps. On the 1st floor is a
4-light rebated and chamfered mullioned window with a blocked one-light
window in the angle with the rear wing. On ground floor of south wall of
rear wing is a blocked one-light chamfered window, a 3-light rebated and
chamfered mullioned window and a doorway with re-set battlemented lintel.
On the 1st floor is a 3-light rebated and chamfered mullioned window to
the left and a 2-light chamfered mullioned window to the right. North
wall of wing facing road is pebbledashed with sashes in plain openings.
Interior. Boxed bressumer for lateral firehood against rear wall of 1672
range.


Listing NGR: SD5034664840

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
181868
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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