Workhouse Farm
WORKHOUSE FARM, BLACKBURN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238823
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Workhouse Farm
- Statutory Address:
- WORKHOUSE FARM, BLACKBURN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238823
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Workhouse Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- WORKHOUSE FARM, BLACKBURN 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:
- WORKHOUSE FARM, BLACKBURN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Padiham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 78009 33385
Details
SD 73 SE SIMONSTONE BLACKBURN ROAD
3/55 Workhouse Farm - - II
Workhouse and associated farmhouse, probably early C19, altered, now (1984) mostly unoccupied. Sandstone rubble, stone slate roofs, the farmhouse having a ridge chimney and gable chimneys, the barn attached to it gable coping with a finial at the north end, the former workhouse range a single chimney cowl on the ridge. L-shaped complex, the farmhouse gable to road on north-south axis with linking cartshed and barn in the same range, and the former workhouse range joined at a right angle to the west side of the barn. Single-depth low 2-storey workhouse of random rubble in 5 bays in length, with a single-storey lean-to at the west end, the partitioned 5th bay lofted with a flight of external steps to a raised doorway and another doorway below; the remainder has rectangular windows, some with glazing bars and others variously altered or damaged, and adjoined under the same roof at the east end is a projecting porch with wagon doors to the barn. The interior of the workhouse has been gutted, but a small fireplace remains at 1st floor level of the partition wall to the 4th/5th bays. The barn at the south end of the east range is 3 bays and 2 higher storeys, its formerly colonnaded left corner now filled in. Linking the left gable wall of the barn to the farmhouse is a small set back 2-storey cartshed with open segmental arch spanning the full width and a window at 1st floor; the farmhouse is 3 bays and 2 storeys with 2 plain doorways and 3 windows on each floor, mostly sashed but damaged except coupled 4-pane sashes in the centre of the ground floor; rear has four 4-pane sashes on each floor. History: unusual survival of parish workhouse pre-dating Poor Law Amendment Act 1834.
Listing NGR: SD7800933385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414904
- 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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