Isherwood Fold
ISHERWOOD FOLD, 6 AND 7, BLACKBURN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241552
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Isherwood Fold
- Statutory Address:
- ISHERWOOD FOLD, 6 AND 7, BLACKBURN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241552
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Isherwood Fold
- Statutory Address 1:
- ISHERWOOD FOLD, 6 AND 7, 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:
- ISHERWOOD FOLD, 6 AND 7, BLACKBURN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Turton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 73676 17268
Details
SD 71 NW TURTON (off) BLACKBURN ROAD Edgworth SD 736 172
7/86 Nos. 6 and 7, Isherwood Fold (formerly listed as No.6 Isherwood Fold) 27.1.1967 GV II Pair of cottages, dated 1718, with later addition at right end. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, slate roof with chimneys at both original gables (roof of addition continues beyond that on the right). Single pile plan, each cottage 2 bays making a long range of 4 bays (with 5th added) and 2 storeys, but with a broad single storey extension to the rear of each. Doorway to baffle entry at left end has lintel with a moulded square panel containing incised lettering "C I" and a pattern 1718 of 3 groups of 5 dots (domino fashion). Originally four 4-light windows on each floor, all with slightly recessed chamfered mullions and those at ground floor with simple hoodmoulds, but at ground floor only the 3rd is intact; the 1st and 2nd lack some mullions (the 1st with an added light to the left), and the 4th has been altered as a door with a large window inserted to the right of it. Rear wall has at ground floor between the extensions a 6-light window with a hoodmould, the 4th light blocked; extensions have mainly altered windows, but some mullions remain.
Listing NGR: SD7367617268
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440667
- 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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