Stanworth Farmhouse

STANWORTH FARMHOUSE, BOLTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165379
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:
Stanworth Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
STANWORTH FARMHOUSE, BOLTON ROAD
Stanworth Farmhouse in Withnell. A farmhouse from the 17th century. Probably constructed in two builds.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165379
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:
Stanworth Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
STANWORTH FARMHOUSE, BOLTON ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
STANWORTH FARMHOUSE, BOLTON ROAD

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:
Withnell
National Grid Reference:
SD 64122 24396

Details

WITHNELL BOLTON ROAD (off) SD 62 SW 6/224 Stanworth Farmhouse 1.3.67 - II

Farmhouse. C17, probably in 2 builds and formerly 2 dwellings. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, mostly rendered, slate roof. L-shaped plan formed by 3-bay range on north-south axis with long 2-bay wing added to west side of northern end. All 2 storeys; entrance front on east side has 2 doorways in centre, that on the left covered by a large lean-to porch, altered windows at each end of ground floor, and 3 stone mullioned windows at 1st floor: in centre and to right both 4-lights, recessed, with cavetto mullions; 2-light flush mullion window to left is a recent insertion. Left gable has similar windows of 3 and 2 lights at ground floor and 4 lights above (the latter with 2 replacement mullions); right gable has a 2-light window on each floor towards the rear, the lower blocked and the upper altered as a sliding sash; and a brick chimney. Rear has windows of 2 and 4 lights at ground floor, 4 lights above. The added range has similarly recessed windows but with chamfered mullions, and those at ground floor have hoodmoulds: to the left 3 lights, to the right 4 + 2 lights with a king mullion (lst 3 lights blocked), and at 1st floor 4, 5 (outer lights blocked) and 2 lights (lacking mullion); left gable has one inserted window on each window on each floor, and a brick chimney; rear has inter alia a 3-light window at 1st floor, and a single-storey gabled kitchen extension. Interior: altered, but 3rd bay of earlier range has large stop-chamfered beams, and post and rail timber framed partition wall; addition has chamfered beams with run-out stops, and kitchen still in C19 condition, with flagged floor, oven-and-boiler range, etc.

Listing NGR: SD6412224396

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
184478
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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