Crow Trees

CROW TREES, GOUGH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1211203
Date first listed:
27-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
Crow Trees
Statutory Address:
CROW TREES, GOUGH LANE
Crow Trees. Farmhouse, now house, from the early 17th century or possibly earlier, with later alterations and additions.
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Date:
2000-05-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1211203
Date first listed:
27-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
Crow Trees
Statutory Address 1:
CROW TREES, GOUGH 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:
CROW TREES, GOUGH LANE

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:
Clayton-le-Woods
National Grid Reference:
SD 58035 24463

Details

SD 52SE
9/121

WALTON-LE-DALE,
GOUGH LANE
Crow Trees

27.11.1972

II*

Farmhouse, now house, early C17 or earlier with later alterations and
additions. Gable end to road. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof
with ridge chimneystack and chimney at left gable. Three-bay plan with
through-passage behind chimneystack; short outshut to rear of 1st bay
(modern extension behind this, and addition at right end, not included
in the item). Two storeys. Front wall has lozenge-shaped patterns of
headers, (3 at ground floor and 8 above); door in 3rd bay, a modern
gabled canopy over it; left of door the 1st and 2nd bays have double-
chamfered stone mullion windows with hoodmoulds at ground floor (3 and
6 lights); right of door is one flush mullion window of 3 lights, and
there are 5 similar windows at 1st floor, all of 2 lights except that
in 2nd bay which has 4. Left gable has 3-light double-chamfered stone
mullion window with hoodmould on each floor, two other windows, of 4 and
2 lights, and a narrow attic light near the apex. Rear wall has 5 windows,
3 with stone mullions.
Interior: a full cruck truss incorporated in partition of 2nd and 3rd
bays, one blade having "1689" incised on it; inglenook with stone heck,
ovolo-moulded bressummer, salt cupboard and blocked fire window;
chamfered beams in 2nd bay, quarter-round moulded in 1st and 3rd bays;
open-well staircase of C17 type with barley sugar balusters. Upper floor
has evidence of former smoke bay.


Listing NGR: SD5803524463

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Legacy System number:
358026
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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