Ottershead Farmhouse
OTTERSHEAD FARMHOUSE, DICKS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197062
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Ottershead Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OTTERSHEAD FARMHOUSE, DICKS LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197062
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Ottershead Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OTTERSHEAD FARMHOUSE, DICKS 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:
- OTTERSHEAD FARMHOUSE, DICKS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lathom South
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 44625 08109
Details
ORMSKIRK
SD40NW DICKS LANE, Westhead 663-1/4/185 (North side) 11/08/72 Ottershead Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Mid C18, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond on sandstone plinth, with sandstone dressings and stone slate roof. Rectangular double-depth plan with added service wing to rear. Two storeys with attics, 2 windows, symmetrical, with a high plinth of large dressed blocks, and rusticated quoins. The doorway has a pedimented doorcase with banded pilasters, triglyphs on the lintel, a pulvinated frieze, and a C20 panelled door. The windows are unhorned 12-pane sashes with raised sills and wedge lintels. Gable chimneys. The left gable has an altered attic window; the rear wall is of dressed stone blocks up to 1st floor level, incorporating a lintel with raised keystone over an altered doorway, and has two 3-light sliding sash stair-windows in the centre, and various altered windows. Forms group with associated barn approx. 15 metres to the west (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD4462508109
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386396
- 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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