Lower House Farmhouse
LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE, DELPH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1203643
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE, DELPH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1203643
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Lower House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE, DELPH 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:
- LOWER HOUSE FARMHOUSE, DELPH 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 55937 16268
Details
SD 51 NE CHARNOCK RICHARD DELPH LANE
5/21 Lower House Farmhouse 17.4.1967 - II*
Farmhouse, dated 1654, now house. Brick with stone plinth, quoins and dressings; concrete tile roof with one chimney on the ridge, another behind ridge at right end. Three-bay baffle-entry plan with short outshut to rear of 3rd and part of 2nd bay. Two storeys. Two-storey gabled porch at junction of 1st and 2nd bays has moulded stone entrance with Tudor arched lintel; a hoodmould to the lintel and above this a datestone in arched frame with worn lettering: E ; H C 1654
on 3 sides at 1st floor level are 3-light windows with segmental relieving arches, and on apex of gable is a lozenge pattern of headers. To the left is one window on each floor, to the right 2 windows each floor, all originally 6-lights with chamfered brick mullions and unusual paired segmental relieving arches, but all ground floor windows are now casements and those to the right have stone heads. Right gable wall has 4 windows, 3 with single segmental relieving arches and 2 of these with 2 chamfered brick mullions. Windows in rear wall have brick hoodmoulds, some have chamfered brick mullions; back door to ist bay has moulded stone jambs and arched lintel with a dripstone over it. Ends of 2 inglenook bressummers are exposed. Interior: unusually complete survival of features of the period including back-to-back inglenook hearths with bressummers, beams with depressed ¼-round moulding and stops, a spiral newel staircase (in outshut) and a quarter-turn staircase in kitchen; original board doors; cross-corner parlour fireplace. History: belonged to estate of Charnocks of Astley; building in Commonwealth period and use of brick on site adjoining quarry are unusual.
Listing NGR: SD5593716268
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357536
- 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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