Town End House

TOWN END HOUSE, PRESCOT ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210296
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:
Town End House
Statutory Address:
TOWN END HOUSE, PRESCOT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210296
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:
Town End House
Statutory Address 1:
TOWN END HOUSE, PRESCOT ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TOWN END HOUSE, PRESCOT ROAD

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
West Lancashire (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 41031 07855

Details

ORMSKIRK

SD40NW PRESCOT ROAD 663-1/4/171 (West side) 11/08/72 Town End House

II

House. Probably late C18; altered. Brown brick in English garden wall bond, stone slate roof (now felted). Rectangular plan with angled rear wing at right-hand end. Two storeys with 3 widely-spaced windows at 1st floor. The ground floor has a doorway in the centre with a pedimented wooden surround and a glazed and panelled door, and one window to the left and 2 to the right, all with raised sills and wedge lintels and now furnished with top-hung casements imitating sashes without glazing bars; the 1st floor has similar windows with raised sills and similarly altered glazing. Moulded wooden cornice to the eaves. Gable chimneys and one ridge chimney. Small lean-to attached to right-hand gable wall. Rear: windows with altered glazing, including stair-window.

Listing NGR: SD4103107855

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
386411
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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