Watson Laithe Farmhouse and Attached Barn
WATSON LAITHE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, BILLINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237998
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Watson Laithe Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address:
- WATSON LAITHE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, BILLINGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237998
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Watson Laithe Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATSON LAITHE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, BILLINGTON ROAD
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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:
- WATSON LAITHE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, BILLINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hapton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 80954 31041
Details
SD 83 SW HAPTON (off) ) BILLINGTON ROAD
4/9 Watson Laithe Farmhouse and attached barn - - II
Farmhouse and barn, C17, probably in 2 builds, house divided into 2 cottages in C19 now restored to one. Large sandstone rubble with quoins, house roof of stone slate with ridge chimney, barn roof on lower level now corrugated metal sheet. Double-depth 2-bay house with front outshut to 1st bay, and 4-bay barn to right. Two-storey house, which overlaps the quoins to the left gable of the barn and appears to have been added to it, has outshut porch to left with plain doorway in side wall, 2 windows on each floor, that at ground floor left formerly a doorway with chamfered surround and that at 1st floor right of 2 lights, double-chamfered with a square replacement mullion. Barn has a wagon doorway with large wooden lintel in the 2nd bay, a plain doorway and a window to the left, and a later outshut to the 3rd bay; north gable wall has square breathers on 3 levels, 3 doorways at ground floor (the outer 2 altered as windows) and a loading door to loft in centre; rear of barn has continuous cowshed with stone slate roof. Rear of house: gable wall above barn incorporates a moulded gable coping with 4 carvings: a rose, IHC (Jesus), a rampant lion, and a crucified figure (all ex situ, probably late medieval); at 1st floor a 2-light window like that at the front, and a 5-light double chamfered mullion window lacking the 4th mullion; south gable, rendered and painted white, has a similar 3-light window at 1st floor, and there are various other inserted or altered windows in both these walls. Interior: ground floor has narrow beams with cyma-stopped chamfered, 1st floor has one large chamfered beam c.25 ft. long; stone spiral staircase.
Listing NGR: SD8095431041
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414841
- 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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