Griffin Lodge
GRIFFIN LODGE, CAVENDISH PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1222899
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1986
- Statutory Address:
- GRIFFIN LODGE, CAVENDISH PLACE
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- Date:
- 1999-09-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/01668/02
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1222899
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1986
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRIFFIN LODGE, CAVENDISH PLACE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GRIFFIN LODGE, CAVENDISH PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 66866 27198
Details
CAVENDISH PLACE 1. 861 SD 62 NE Griffin Lodge 5/102 II 2. House, now headquarters of Museums. Area Council. Early/mid C19 with later additions. Red brick with stone dressings, slate roof hipped to left and prominent ridge and end stacks. Main block 2 storeys, 3 window range. Stone plinth. Corner pilasters with stone bases and capitals. Stone frieze and eaves cornice. Central porch with round-headed entrance containing double panelled doors and over light, flanked by small round-headed windows. Corner pilasters, frieze and cornice of stone. Sash windows with stone architraves. Raised stone band at first floor cill level. Projecting bay to ground floor right an addition, with tripartite sash window. Later wings to right and to rear. Richly decorated interior includes staircase with elaborate cast-iron balusters beneath a glaced lantern, sumptuous plaster work, especially to cornices, and moulded chimney pieces (one in Gothic style) to ground floor. Service wing retains 2 kitchen ranges - one made by W and K Dewhurst of Blackburn, the other an "Eagle" patent range with ventilating canopy. Home of Thomas Dugdale, industrialist.
Listing NGR: SD6686627198
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 418387
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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