Brighouse Green Farmhouse

BRIGHOUSE GREEN FARMHOUSE, PLOUGH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197065
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:
Brighouse Green Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
BRIGHOUSE GREEN FARMHOUSE, PLOUGH LANE

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Date:
1999-10-02
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197065
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:
Brighouse Green Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
BRIGHOUSE GREEN FARMHOUSE, PLOUGH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
BRIGHOUSE GREEN FARMHOUSE, PLOUGH 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 44783 07257

Details

ORMSKIRK

SD40NW PLOUGH LANE, Westhead 663-1/4/187 (East side) 11/08/72 Brighouse Green Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1768 at 1st floor. Handmade red brick in English garden wall bond (3+1), with sandstone dressings and stone slate roof. Double-depth plan. Two storeys and 3 windows, with sandstone quoins and dressings; gabled porch at junction of 1st and 2nd bays, with round-headed archway and panelled inner door; 3-light casements with raised sills and rectangular lintels, and now with C20 slender glazing bars and double glazing. Shaped datestone above porch, lettered: B. W I. 1768. Ridge chimney at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, and gable chimney to the right, both panelled. Left gable wall rendered; with gabled porch to blocked doorway, and another blocked doorway above this.

Listing NGR: SD4478307257

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
386408
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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