Silk Hall Farmhouse the Manse
SILK HALL FARMHOUSE, SILK HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241546
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Silk Hall Farmhouse the Manse
- Statutory Address:
- SILK HALL FARMHOUSE, SILK HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241546
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Silk Hall Farmhouse the Manse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SILK HALL FARMHOUSE, SILK HALL
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE MANSE, SILK HALL
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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:
- SILK HALL FARMHOUSE, SILK HALL
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANSE, SILK HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tockholes
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 66168 23106
Details
SD 62 SE TOCKHOLES SILK HALL
SD 661 231
4/76 The Manse and Silk Hall Farmhouse - - II
House, dated 1764 on porch, formerly called Silk Hall, now 2 dwellings. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, roof partly stone slates and partly felted, with one kneeler, one ridge chimney stack and 2 gable chimneys. Front faces Long Lane to the south. Double pile 3-bay plan (3rd bay is Silk Hall Farmhouse), with projecting porch at junction of lst and 2nd bays. Three storeys, the top floor originally a workshop with external entry in gable wall from the rear. Three-storey gabled porch with gable coping and kneelers has plain doorway with massive dressed jambs and lintel, the latter with a moulded panel inscribed R a tall 1st floor window with ¨R S¨ 1764 architrave, a blocked oeil-de-boeuf in the gable, and in the right side wall a window at ground floor. Otherwise, 3 windows on each floor, mostly altered, those flanking the porch at 1st floor being square and those above and to the right mostly horizontal rectangular. (Cottages continued to right are not included in the item). Rear wall is rendered, has a round-headed stairlight and various altered windows, and at left gable a flight of stone steps leading to a door in the top floor of the gable wall. Interior: The Manse has original staircase with bracketed treads, open string, paired turned balusters, and ramped handrail; original doors with fielded panels; top floor workshop originally entirely open now partitioned between 2nd and 3rd bays, later staircase into it from 1st floor of The Manse. History: built by Ralph (and Susannah) Richardson "for a residence and for the purpose of his business as a chapman in silks" (Abram Blackburn pp. 701-2).
Listing NGR: SD6616823106
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440654
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Abram, W A, History of Blackburn, (1877), 701-2
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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