Yew Tree Farmhouse
YEW TREE FARMHOUSE, ELMERS GREEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219689
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- YEW TREE FARMHOUSE, ELMERS GREEN LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03115/04
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219689
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- YEW TREE FARMHOUSE, ELMERS GREEN 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:
- YEW TREE FARMHOUSE, ELMERS GREEN LANE
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 49820 06762
Details
SKELMERSDALE
SD40NE ELMERS GREEN LANE 783-1/1/20 (East side) 25/06/73 Yew Tree Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: SKELMERSDALE AND HOLLAND ELMERS GREEN LANE Yew Tree House & adjoining barn)
GV II
Farmhouse with attached barn, (barn not included), now 2 dwellings. Dated 1679 on gable of wing and 1710 on main range, but probably earlier; altered. Coursed sandstone rubble painted white with stone dressings painted black; stone slate roof. Shallow U-plan formed by one-bay hall range with 2-bay cross-wings. One-and-a-half storey main range and 2-storey wings, 1:1:1 windows; with a plinth and 1st floor band to the centre and the left wing, a central doorway with rectangular lintel, flanked by 12-pane top-hung casement windows, a datestone over the door with raised lettering: C/ TE/ 1710, and above this a gabled half-dormer with a window like those below. The left wing has a square casement window on each floor, both with raised sills and the upper with a floating band over it. The right-hand wing has an oblong window on each floor, the lower offset to the left and both with raised sills, thin lintels and altered glazing, and a datestone in the gable with raised lettering: C/ II/ 1679. Ridge chimney at junction with right-hand wing, corner chimney to this wing. Rear has lean-to outshut to main range, and C20 wing. INTERIOR: timber-framed partition walls to the wings; former lateral partition of right-hand wing removed; principal-rafter roof truss with curved principals and superimposed apex.
Listing NGR: SD4982006762
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388982
- 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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