Bolton Green Farmhouse
BOLTON GREEN FARMHOUSE, BACK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1203550
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bolton Green Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BOLTON GREEN FARMHOUSE, BACK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1203550
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bolton Green Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOLTON GREEN FARMHOUSE, BACK 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:
- BOLTON GREEN FARMHOUSE, BACK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Charnock Richard
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 55130 17760
Details
SD 51 NE
5/12
CHARNOCK RICHARD,
BACK LANE,
Bolton Green Farmhouse
17.4.1967
GV II*
House, dated 1612 (1611 inside), possibly with some later alterations.
Coursed rubble of thin red sandstone with plinth and large quoins, slate
roof with one chimney on the ridge, one at the gable of the rear extension
(and a modern chimney at front left corner). Roughly cruciform plan, the
3-bay baffle-entry house having a porch to front and a kitchen extension
to rear of main chimney stack; 1st bay continued to rear as outshut
containing stairs. Two storeys; wide 2-storey gabled porch at junction
of 2nd and 3rd bays, doorway with moulded jambs and moulded Tudor-arch
lintel offset to right, a 3-light window on the left and another above
which has a stepped hoodmould enclosing a datestone lettered in relief
RLML
1612
There are 17 chamfered stone mullion windows (mostly with hoodmoulds) of
uniform pattern which may be of later date; those in front wall left of the
porch are of 5 and 6 lights on both floors (the latter formed of 2 groups
of 3), and 4 lights to the right. Adjoining rear of kitchen extension,
and lower, is a former stable with loft approached by external steps at
right angles to the gable.
Interior: inglenook with stone heck and moulded bressummer; ¼ round moulded
beams throughout and timber framed flat floor partitions; fine dogleg
staircase of late C17 type with gates at the foot, triple stage balustered
screen at the landing, and foliated plaster decoration on beams above the
well; upper room in 3rd bay has stone fireplace with Tudor-arched lintel
lettered 1611 RLML IB +
Listing NGR: SD5514817751
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357526
- 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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