DELPH FARM COTTAGE and HILLHOUSE FARM
HILLHOUSE FARM, DELPH FARM COTTAGE, WOOD LANE, L37 9BQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230961
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1968
- List Entry Name:
- DELPH FARM COTTAGE and HILLHOUSE FARM
- Statutory Address:
- HILLHOUSE FARM, DELPH FARM COTTAGE, WOOD LANE, L37 9BQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230961
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1968
- List Entry Name:
- DELPH FARM COTTAGE and HILLHOUSE FARM
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILLHOUSE FARM, DELPH FARM COTTAGE, WOOD LANE, L37 9BQ
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:
- HILLHOUSE FARM, DELPH FARM COTTAGE, WOOD LANE, L37 9BQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Altcar
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 34258 06088
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/09/2017
SD 30 NW,
6/8
GREAT ALTCAR,
WOOD LANE (south side),
Delph Farm Cottage and Hillhouse Farm
(Formerly listed as: CAUSEWAY LANE (south side) Hill House Farmhouse)
11.10.1968
II
House. 1673 with mid and late C19 additions. Early part of sandstone
rubble; remainder of brick. Slate roof. Early part has window with plain
reveals and flat brick arch on ground floor. On the first floor is a
5-light rebated and chamfered mullioned window. Above it is a plaque
inscribed: 'EFM 1673'. To the right of the ground-floor window is a
doorway with plain reveals blocked with brickwork. To its right is the
present doorway, under a slated canopy. Gable coped. To the left is a
brick lean-to addition. To the right are additions with three gables, the
right-hand one later and set back. Their windows are sashed with glazing
bars.
Listing NGR: SD3425806088
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357822
- 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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