Flash Green Farmhouse

FLASH GREEN FARMHOUSE, JENNY LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165224
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:
Flash Green Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
FLASH GREEN FARMHOUSE, JENNY LANE
Flash Green Farmhouse, Higher Wheelton, Chorley District. A farmhouse, now a house, probably later 17th century.
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Date:
1999-09-10
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165224
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Flash Green Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
FLASH GREEN FARMHOUSE, JENNY LANE

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
FLASH GREEN FARMHOUSE, JENNY LANE

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:
Wheelton
National Grid Reference:
SD 61184 22336

Details

WHEELTON JENNY LANE SD 62 SW Higher Wheelton

6/207 Flash Green Farmhouse 17.4.67 (Formerly listed as in Buckholes Lane) GV II

Farmhouse now house. Probably later C17 soon extended, with late C18 addition; altered. Mostly coursed thin sandstone rubble with some quoins, tiled roof. Now T-shaped plan formec by north-south range of 4 bays in total with short coupled wings in centre of west side, 2 lean-to porches on east side, and lean-to at north end; probably first built on 2-bay end-baffle-entry plan, another bay added at the south end, and in C18 a loomshop added to this. Two storeys; entrance front on east side has lean-to porch with side door, to right of this 2 horizontal rectangular windows on each floor, that at ground left a 3-light double-chamfered mullion window, others altered; vertical joint visible above top left corner of porch; left of porch a blocked doorway, a 4-light double- chamfered mullion window at ground floor (lacking 2 mullions), with damaged hoodmould, and a similar 3-light window above (lacking both mullions), and an inserted door and modern glazed pcrch; altered C18 addition continued to left. Rear (west side) has coupled gabled 2-storey wings with quoins at 1st floor of junction and other signs of alteration in the masonry, each wing with one mullioned window on each floor, lacking most mullions but all with hoodmoulds, and those in the left part higher (possibly formerly a stairturret); to the left one similar window similarly altered on each floor, and a square window on each floor of the end bay; to right, rear wall of loomshop has an altered triple window at ground floor, altered oblong window above. Interior: housepart in present 3rd bay has inglenook with chamfered stone heck, 1/4-round moulded bressummer, carved saltcupboard built into heck; 2nd bay (early addition) has smaller inglenook with chamfered bressumer; otherwise altered.

Listing NGR: SD6118422336

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Legacy System number:
184461
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.

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