Needless Inn Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall
NEEDLESS INN FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, LADY ALICE'S DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196647
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Needless Inn Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall
- Statutory Address:
- NEEDLESS INN FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, LADY ALICE'S DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196647
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Needless Inn Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEEDLESS INN FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, LADY ALICE'S DRIVE
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:
- NEEDLESS INN FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, LADY ALICE'S DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lathom
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 44548 09622
Details
LATHOM
SD40NW LADY ALICE'S DRIVE 663-1/4/71 (South side) 11/08/72 Needless Inn Farmhouse and attached garden wall (Formerly Listed as: ORMSKIRK BLYTHE LANE, Lathom (South East side) Needless Inn Farmhouse)
GV II
Farmhouse with attached garden wall. Early to mid C18, enlarged and altered. Pebble-dashed render on handmade brick, with sandstone plinth and quoins, stone slate roof. L-plan formed by single-depth 2-unit main range with projecting porch and added kitchen wing to rear. Two storeys and attics, 1:1:1 windows, tall and almost symmetrical, with a 2-storey gabled porch offset right of centre and 2 windows on each floor: the porch has quoins, a round-headed outer doorway and a very small 2-light casement at 1st floor, and the other windows are all low segmental-headed 3-light casements with altered glazing. Both gable walls have extruded chimney stacks with diagonal shafts and small attic windows. The rear wing has 3-light casement windows with glazing bars and raised punch-dressed sills, a board door next to the junction, and a gable chimney. INTERIOR: the main range has the housepart in the 2nd bay, with a pair of chamfered beams, and the 1st bay partitioned to make a very narrow dairy to the front (which is the north side) and a service room or parlour to the rear, with a pair of large chamfered beams. Purlin roof with re-used timbers. GARDEN WALL: enclosing north and east sides of front garden, of red brick in English garden wall bond with sandstone coping, approx. 1m high, with the side wall ramped down to the front corner, and a gateway in line with the porch, with rusticated stone jambs. Forms group with associated wash-house approx. 3m from rear left corner (q.v.) and farm building approx. 50m north (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD4454809622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386308
- 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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