White Rails Farmhouse and Garden Wall
WHITE RAILS FARMHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL, ASMALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221066
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- White Rails Farmhouse and Garden Wall
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE RAILS FARMHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL, ASMALL LANE
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- Date:
- 1999-09-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/01687/06
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221066
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- White Rails Farmhouse and Garden Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE RAILS FARMHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL, ASMALL 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:
- WHITE RAILS FARMHOUSE AND GARDEN WALL, ASMALL 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 40483 08858
Details
ORMSKIRK
SD40NW ASMALL LANE 663-1/4/125 (North side) 11/08/72 White Rails Farmhouse and garden wall
II
Farmhouse. Late C17 or early C18; altered. Handmade red brick in English garden wall bond (3+1) on stone plinth, composition tile roof. Three-unit lobby-entry plan with projecting porch and added rear wing. Two low storeys, 2:1:1 windows, with a 2-storey gabled porch at the junction of the 2nd and 3rd bays. This has a square-headed doorway with altered door, and a 2-light casement above. Otherwise, both floors have horizontal-sliding sashes of 2 and 2 lights, those at ground floor with segmental relieving arches. Ridge chimney at the junction of the 2nd and 3rd bays. Attached to the right-hand gable is a high screen wall (the back of a C19 outbuilding) which links to the associated barn (q.v.). Rear: blocked doorway near east end, and blocked window next to this; one-unit service wing with sliding sash window at ground floor and casement above; porch in angle. INTERIOR: some chamfered beams, and at the left end of the range a c.1700 dog-legged staircase with closed string, turned balusters and moulded handrail. GARDEN WALL: shallow front garden enclosed by wall of red brick except for the right-hand end and its return which are of sandstone rubble brought to courses, with rounded coping. Forms group with barn approx. 6m east (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD4048308858
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386362
- 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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