Wallcroft Farmhouse
WALLCROFT FARMHOUSE, VICTORIA STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165258
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wallcroft Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WALLCROFT FARMHOUSE, VICTORIA STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165258
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wallcroft Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLCROFT FARMHOUSE, VICTORIA STREET
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:
- WALLCROFT FARMHOUSE, VICTORIA STREET
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 60317 21041
Details
WHEELTON VICTORIA STREET SD 62 SW 6/211 Wallcroft Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse, now house. Later C17, altered and enlarged in late C18 or early C19. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, stone slate roof. Three-bay baffle-entry plan with addition to front of 1st bay, lean-to additions to rear. Two and a half storeys; 2-storey addition to 1st bay has dressed long-and short quoins, one vertical rectangular window on each floor (each with plain surround); all openings in facade to right are alterations; doorway with plain surround next to addition, a 4-light casement to the middle bay, a square window to the 3rd and 2 similar windows above, all these in remains of former mullioned windows; patched masonry above the door; small dormer in the eaves. Left return wall has inter alia altered mullioned window on each floor; right gable has a 3-light attic window with chamfered flush mullions; rear mostly covered by additions but on each floor of 3rd bay is a 3-light window with cavetto mullions (lower covered by glazed porch). Interior the principal feature of interest is the framed newel staircase in the rear of the 3rd bay, which has a moulded string, panelled newels with ball finials and a pendant, open twisted balusters alternating with turned, and moulded handrail; elsewhere, housepart in 2nd bay has large inglenook with stone heck and chamfered bressumer, one lateral beam with stopped ovolo moulding; infilled collar roof truss with 2 pairs of purlins apparently raised on dorsals (suggesting formerly more steeply pitched roof); cellar beneath staircase now filled up, said to have connected with tunnel.
Listing NGR: SD6031721041
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184465
- 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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