Thatch Cottage
THATCH COTTAGE, MOSS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196635
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Thatch Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THATCH COTTAGE, MOSS LANE
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- Date:
- 2002-11-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/08839/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196635
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Thatch Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THATCH COTTAGE, MOSS LANE
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:
- THATCH COTTAGE, MOSS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Burscough
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 45645 13856
Details
BURSCOUGH
SD41SE MOSS LANE 663-1/3/28 (West side) 11/08/72 Thatch Cottage
II
Farmhouse, now house. Probably later C17; remodelled and recently enlarged. Cruck frame with later brick cladding now rendered and painted white, restored thatched roof. Four bays, the 1st formerly a shippon. One-and-a-half storeys; all openings altered: doorway formerly at junction of 3rd and 4th bays, in line with chimney, but entrance now in 2nd bay, C20 windows inserted and chimney removed; renewed thatched roof with prominent oversailing eaves and 2 large dormers, replacing former thatched roof with eaves almost flush with walls and very low small windows just under eaves. (Photographic). C20 two-storey wing recently added to rear. INTERIOR: remains of three cruck trusses: one at the junction of the 1st and 2nd bays, with blades terminating above a collar and a kingpost mounted on this, and strongly curved windbraces; a similar truss at the gable end of the 4th bay, also with a king-post mounted on a collar, and one similar windbrace; and the front blade of another truss at the junction of the 2nd and 3rd bays, with a similar kingpost and similar wind-braces on both sides.
Listing NGR: SD4564513856
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386268
- 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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