High Whitaker Farmhouse
HIGH WHITAKER FARMHOUSE, BARROWFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238725
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- High Whitaker Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH WHITAKER FARMHOUSE, BARROWFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238725
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- High Whitaker Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH WHITAKER FARMHOUSE, BARROWFORD ROAD
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:
- HIGH WHITAKER FARMHOUSE, BARROWFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ightenhill
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 80082 35157
Details
SD 83 NW IGHTENHILL (off) BARROWFORD ROAD North Town
2/53 High Whitaker Farmhouse - - II
Wing of small manor house, probably earlier C16, altered, now farmhouse. Coursed sandstone blocks of irregular size with some quoins, slate roof with overhanging eaves and ridge chimney stack. Rectangular plan on north-south axis, modern addition on west side (probable position of original hall range). Two storeys, addition on west single storey, set back; externally the principal features of interest are 2 mullioned windows with round-headed lights and hollow spandrels, and 2 doorways on the east side: south gable wall has a ground floor window of 9 recessed lights with chamfered jambs and sill (flat head probably rebuilt), east side wall has a similar 3-light window to the front bay, doorways to the 2nd and 3rd bays with Tudor-arched heads crudely undercut in heavy lintels, and massive jambstones (the first of these now protected by a stone porch). Interior: now unequally partitioned into 3 but probably originally 2 rooms; 4 moulded stone corbels in the west wall, 3 in the east and one at the north end; back-to-back stone fireplaces in the partition wall between the 2nd and 3rd bays, and apparently the remains of an earlier and larger fireplace in the west wall. History: property of Whitaker family in C16 (Reference: VCH Lancs vol. 5, p.493).
Listing NGR: SD8008235157
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414902
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911), 493
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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