Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164867
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Swans
- Statutory Address:
- SWANS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1164867
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Swans
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWANS
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:
- SWANS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tatham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 65743 63443
Details
SD 66 SE TATHAM
6/97 Swans (formerly listed as Swans and 4-10-1967 adjoining barns) - II
House, late C17th and mid C18th. Sandstone rubble with stone slate roof. 2 storeys. The western end of the building is lower and of late C17th date; although originally a house it was until recently used as a farm building. Its south wall has a drip course, now interrupted in places. On the ground floor there are 6 windows with rebated and chamfered surrounds. The left-hand one has had its mullions removed. The 2nd one is of 2 lights and the 3rd of one light. The others are of 2 lights, the 5th one now blocked. There are now no windows on the 1st floor. Chimney to right of 3rd window. To the right is the taller mid C18th part of the house, of 2 bays with a crude drip course over the ground-floor windows, which have plain stone surrounds. They were formerly of 3 lights and have one mullion each remaining. The 1st floor windows have rebated and chamfered surrounds. Gable chimneys. On the north side the earlier part of the house has numerous blocked openings, a 2-light rebated and chamfered mullioned window, and a former doorway, now glazed, with a chamfered surround and a lintel inscribed: 'WMD 1675'. Re-set above a wide doorway with plain reveals at the left is a plaque inscribed: 'CDI 1693'. At the left the C18th part of the building has a wing projecting forwards whose front wall has windows with flat-faced mullions and a modern gabled stone porch. Inside, the C17th part of the building has a chamfered shouldered fireplace of C17th type, with brick bread oven, said to have a smoking chamber within the flue, accessible from the 1st floor. On the other side of the wall which contains this fireplace two wooden beams project and support a bressumer. This was probably part of a firehood of unusual design.
Listing NGR: SD6574363443
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 182633
- 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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