Barker's Farmhouse
BARKER'S FARMHOUSE, ELMERS GREEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201658
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Barker's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARKER'S FARMHOUSE, ELMERS GREEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201658
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Barker's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARKER'S FARMHOUSE, ELMERS GREEN 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:
- BARKER'S FARMHOUSE, ELMERS GREEN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 49654 07483
Details
SKELMERSDALE
SD40NE ELMERS GREEN LANE 783-1/1/7 (East side) 25/06/73 Barker's Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1742 on gable of porch; enlarged in C19, altered and renovated. Coursed sandstone rubble, graduated stone slate roof. Cruciform plan formed by a 2-unit main range with a broad porch-wing at the front and a service wing at the back, plus an outshut to this. Two storeys, 1:1:1 windows, symmetrical. The large 2-storey porch, with a ball finial, has a doorway with a rectangular lintel and a C20 glazed door, a tall 2-light casement window, and above this square datestone with a circular panel lettered: H/E E/1742. The flanking bays have large square 2-light casement windows with rectangular lintels and C20 joinery. The roof has a cruciform chimney stack on the centre of the ridge and ball finials on both gables. The west side of the rear wing has an outshut under a catslide roof. INTERIOR: unusual 2-unit plan (for the date) with a central chimney stack (which formerly had relatively small back-to-back fireplaces); stone-vaulted former dairy in outshut of rear wing; C19 staircase ascending along rear wall of 2nd unit; crudely-shaped chamfered purlins in main range, with run-out stops, and machine-sawn purlins in rear wing.
Listing NGR: SD4965407483
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388970
- 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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