Balshaw House

BALSHAW HOUSE, BALSHAW LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1204200
Date first listed:
21-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
Balshaw House
Statutory Address:
BALSHAW HOUSE, BALSHAW LANE
Balshaw House. Farmhouse, probably early seventeenth century. Altered and enlarged in the eighteenth century.
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Date:
2001-01-16
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1204200
Date first listed:
21-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
Balshaw House
Statutory Address 1:
BALSHAW HOUSE, BALSHAW LANE

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
BALSHAW HOUSE, BALSHAW LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lancashire
District:
Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:
Euxton
National Grid Reference:
SD 55817 18491

Details

SD 51 NE EUXTON BALSHAW LANE

5/103 Balshaw House - - II

Farmhouse, probably earlier C17 altered and enlarged in C18, now house. Coursed sandstone with rendered facade painted white, slate roof with brick chimney to left gable and one stone and brick chimney on the ridge. L-shaped plan with a receding wing to the rear of the 1st bay which appears to be the earliest part of the building. Front (probably C18), has a sashed window with glazing bars on each floor of 1st bay, door to 2nd bay; gabled 3rd bay breaks forward slightly and has one tall window on each floor (both boarded at time of survey); return wall of this has 3 (boarded) openings. Rear wing has in left (outer) wall a double-chamfered stone mullion window with 4 square lights and a king mullion in the centre, and a hoodmould; in right (inner) Wll a doorway with slightly arched lintel and to right of this on each fldor a 6-light stone mullion window, the lower with the centre light enlarged downwards (both windows lacking 3 mullions), and at right end 2-light double-chamfered stone mullion windows. Remains of a dripcourse over door and ground floor windows. Interior: remaining original features include beams with rounded moulding in front range, broad chamfer in rear range; some internal timber-framing.

Listing NGR: SD5581718491

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
357620
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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