Unicorn Inn
UNICORN INN, 34, CHORLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211139
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Unicorn Inn
- Statutory Address:
- UNICORN INN, 34, CHORLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211139
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Unicorn Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNICORN INN, 34, CHORLEY ROAD
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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.
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:
- UNICORN INN, 34, CHORLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- South Ribble (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 55689 28006
Details
SD 52NE WALTON LE DALE CHORLEY ROAD
5/112 No. 34 (Unicorn Inn) 4.8.1978 - II
Inn, C17, C18 and C19, now restaurant. Pebble-dashed walls, probably brick, roof of concrete slates and corrugated sheet covering, stone slates and possibly thatch; chimney to near gable. Various builds, now making T-shaped plan, the earliest, forming the leg, now much altered, of one storey, the rest of 2 and 1½ storeys. Entrance at the back, on north side of wing, a mounting block built into the end of the wall to the right of it. Some C19 sashed windows and later casements. Gable to road is now oblique. Rear has part of large vaulted brick arch attached at ground level, purpose unknown. Interior said to have exposed timber- framed partitions. History: part said to have been used by Cromwell's forces as headquarters during Battle of Preston 1648; subsequently a Jacobite "Mock Corporation" used it as a meeting place.
Listing NGR: SD5568928006
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358017
- 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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