Higher Hey Cottage Higher Hey Farmhouse
HIGHER HEY COTTAGE, SANDY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205822
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Hey Cottage Higher Hey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER HEY COTTAGE, SANDY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205822
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Hey Cottage Higher Hey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER HEY COTTAGE, SANDY LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- HIGHER HEY FARMHOUSE, SANDY 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:
- HIGHER HEY COTTAGE, SANDY LANE
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER HEY FARMHOUSE, SANDY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Hyndburn (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 78462 27826
Details
ACCRINGTON off SANDY LANE SD 72 NE 5/35 Higher Hey Farmhouse and 22.8.1966 Higher Hey Cottage - II
Farmhouse, dated 1688, extended, now 2 dwellings. Rendered rubble with exposed quoins, stone slate roof with 2 chimneys on the ridge and one at right gable. Cruciform plan, modified: 2-bay baffle-entry with front porch and rear stair turret and outshut; 3rd bay added at left end with continued outshut. Two storeys; prominent 2-storey gabled porch with Tudor-arched doorway, a datestone above lettered in relief NH AH (WH = William Halstead) HH EH W H 1688 Front windows altered but one stone mullion in 1st floor window left of porch. Rear has gabled stair turret, 1st floor window with a stone mullion left of turret, continuous outshut to the right with a very small oblong window under the eaves; otherwise, openings altered. Interior: beams set on edge; carved salt cupboard.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183834
- 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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