Ambrose Cottage
AMBROSE COTTAGE, PIMBO LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219960
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Ambrose Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- AMBROSE COTTAGE, PIMBO LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219960
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Ambrose Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- AMBROSE COTTAGE, PIMBO 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:
- AMBROSE COTTAGE, PIMBO LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Up Holland
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 50648 03045
Details
UP HOLLAND
SD50SW PIMBO LANE 783-1/4/55 (West side) 25/06/73 Ambrose Cottage (Formerly Listed as: SKELMERSDALE AND HOLLAND PIMBO LANE Ambrose Cottage and attached barn)
GV II
Farmhouse and attached barn, now all one dwelling. Probably late C17 or early C18; altered and renovated, with additions to rear. Coursed sandstone rubble, slate roof. 2-unit main range with small projecting gabled wing to left and former barn or shippon attached at left end. 2 low storeys, 2 windows, with a 3-course band; an altered doorway offset to the left, 2 vertical-rectangular windows at ground floor and 2 square windows above, all now C20 casements. Gable chimney. Low gabled wing to left (former kitchen) with one square window in the re-entrant side and one C20 window on each floor of the gable wall. Former barn or shippon to left of this has large square-headed doorway near left end, now with French windows, and a 3-light window to the right. Rear; gabled wing to main range, and C20 addition to former shippon. INTERIOR: 2 pairs of chamfered axial beams.
Listing NGR: SD5064803045
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389025
- 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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