Peacock House Farmhouse

PEACOCK HOUSE FARMHOUSE, DAWBERS LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1204253
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:
Peacock House Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
PEACOCK HOUSE FARMHOUSE, DAWBERS LANE
Peacock House Farmhouse on Dawbers Lane in the Euxton Parish of Chorley. A farmhouse from the later 17th century.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1204253
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
21-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
Peacock House Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
PEACOCK HOUSE FARMHOUSE, DAWBERS 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:
PEACOCK HOUSE FARMHOUSE, DAWBERS 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 53966 18385

Details

SD 51 NW EUXTON DAWBERS LANE

4/108 Peacock House Farmhouse 17.4.1967 (Formerly listed as Peacock House) - II

Farmhouse, later C17, now house. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, renovated roof of stone slates with a chimney on the ridge and a chimney at each gable. Three-bay baffle-entry plan (the 1st bay added soon after first build). Two storeys; 2-storey gabled porch to left of 2nd bay has round-headed opening with crude voussoirs, stone side-benches, and a modern glazed inner door protecting a studded board door within; at 1st floor a modern 3-light casement with a rectangular stone head; left of porch a blocked doorway, and one 3-light stone mullion window on each floor; right of porch, four similar windows of slightly irregular size, and between the 2nd and 3rd bays a vertical tear-joint. Left return wall has a 1st floor doorway approached by external steps (the matching parapet modern). Rear: a round-headed window and a 2-light stone mullion window to 1st bay, a 3-light stone mullion window to outshut of 3rd bay (modern 2-storey extension to 2nd bay). Interior: in 2nd bay on inglenook with stone heck and cyma-stopped ovolo-moulded bressummer; similarly moulded beams here and in parlour of 3rd bay; timber-framed partition to 2nd and 3rd bays, at ground floor incorporating Tudor-arched doorway; smokehood at 1st floor; original board doors, some with wooden pull-handles.

Listing NGR: SD5396618385

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Legacy System number:
357625
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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