Wash House Building Approximately 3 Metres South East of Needless Inn Farmhouse
WASH HOUSE BUILDING APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES SOUTH EAST OF NEEDLESS INN FARMHOUSE, LADY ALICE'S DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196648
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Wash House Building Approximately 3 Metres South East of Needless Inn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WASH HOUSE BUILDING APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES SOUTH EAST OF NEEDLESS INN FARMHOUSE, LADY ALICE'S DRIVE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196648
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Wash House Building Approximately 3 Metres South East of Needless Inn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WASH HOUSE BUILDING APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES SOUTH EAST OF NEEDLESS INN FARMHOUSE, 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:
- WASH HOUSE BUILDING APPROXIMATELY 3 METRES SOUTH EAST OF NEEDLESS INN FARMHOUSE, 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 44555 09616
Details
LATHOM
SD40NW LADY ALICE'S DRIVE 663-1/4/72 (South side) Wash-house building approx. 3m SE of Needless Inn Farmhouse
GV II
Wash-house building with integral privy and store. Probably later C18 or early C19; slightly altered. Handmade brick in English garden wall bond (3+1), stone slate roof. Square plan on east-west axis, partitioned one third from east end, with privy and store to rear of this partition. Single storey with a gabled front wall which has a doorway to the left and 2-light sliding sash window next to this under linked lintels, and a smaller 2-light sliding sash window to the right, with glazing bars. Four-flue ridge chimney stack rising from internal partition. The south side has a doorway in the centre and another at the right-hand end (to the privy); the rear has a doorway to the store (now covered by shed roof). INTERIOR: contains cast-iron pump drawing water from well in yard; and a large rectangular fireplace flanked by washing boilers. Unusually complete and intact example of its type.
Listing NGR: SD4455509616
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386310
- 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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