Derby House
DERBY HOUSE, 55, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220236
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Derby House
- Statutory Address:
- DERBY HOUSE, 55, SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220236
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Derby House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DERBY HOUSE, 55, SCHOOL 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:
- DERBY HOUSE, 55, SCHOOL 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 52323 05164
Details
UP HOLLAND
SD5205 SCHOOL LANE 783-1/7/77 (South side) 07/01/52 No.55 Derby House
GV II
Formerly known as: Old Manor Court House SCHOOL LANE UPHOLLAND. House, or wing of former house. Dated 1633 at 1st floor; altered. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, slate roof, brick chimney. 2-unit plan at right-angles to street. 2 storeys with basement and attic, a gabled one-window facade, with a high chamfered plinth, and a moulded dripband over the ground floor. The centre of the basement steps up over the top half of a blocked square-headed doorway with chamfered reveal and Tudor-arched lintel, to the left is a small chamfered blocked opening, and to the right an inserted doorway with C20 door; the ground floor has an inserted vertical-rectangular window (with C20 glazing) in the remains of a blocked mullioned window, probably formerly similar to the window at 1st floor, which has 6 lights with a chamfered reveal, ovolo-moulded mullions and a moulded hoodmould; and at attic level is a blocked 2-light double chamfered mullioned window. On the centre of the dripband is a stone plaque carved with the Stanley crest of eagle-and-child, and the date "1633". The right-hand return wall is mostly covered by an adjoining building, but part of blocked 2-light mullioned windows are exposed on both floors. The rear gable wall has a 5-light mullioned window at 1st floor (like that at the front), a stone plaque above this with the Legs-of-Man, the initials "ILS" in the top left corner, "1633" in the top right-hand corner, and initials in the lower corners "RC" and "IC"; an attic window like that at the front, and in the apex a square stone with an egg-shaped recess. INTERIOR: 4 stop-chamfered lateral beams on each floor; partition which is probably timber-framed; principal rafter roof truss with angle braces and wind-braces to the purlins. HISTORY: said to have been used as gaol.
Listing NGR: SD5232305162
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389068
- 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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