Brandwood Fold
BRANDWOOD FOLD, 1 AND 2, BOLTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1241554
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Brandwood Fold
- Statutory Address:
- BRANDWOOD FOLD, 1 AND 2, BOLTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1241554
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Brandwood Fold
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRANDWOOD FOLD, 1 AND 2, BOLTON 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:
- BRANDWOOD FOLD, 1 AND 2, BOLTON 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 74018 16378
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/03/2018
SD 71 NW; 7/94
TURTON (off) BOLTON ROAD,
Edgworth
Nos. 1 and 2 Brandwood Fold
(formerly listed as Brandwood Fold (now No. 1 and No. 2 Brandwood Fold))
27.01.1967
GV
II*
Large farmhouse, C17; now two dwellings. Coursed sandstone rubble with
quoins, stone slate roof with two small chimneys on the ridge (one of
these at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays), another at left gable, and
external chimney stack at left end. U-shaped 3-bay through-passage plan,
with projecting crosswings, the roof carried down over them, and large
rear outshut to the middle bay under a catslide roof. Two storeys.
Front, which faces the Fold to the south, has a moulded eaves cornice
to the projecting wings carried horizontally round the re-entrant.
walls of the middle bay; right wing incorporates in its left side a
porch which has a large Tudor-arched moulded doorway with a massive lintel,
and a studded inner door; left wing has an inserted door; each bay has one
double-chamfered stone-mullion window on each floor, the lower with
hoodmoulds: 6 and 5 lights in the left wing, 14 lights (transomed) and
3 lights in the centre, 5 and 5 lights in the right wing. Rear has some
similar windows, a 1st-floor door to the side of the outshut, and
in the 3rd bay a large Tudor-arched doorway and a later stairlight
cross window above that. INTERIOR: through passage behind main
chimney stack (now with staircase at rear end); in 2nd bay an inglenook
with wattle-and-daub heck incorporating also a flagstone, and a
bressummer which appears to be a re-used wall plate; chamfered beams in
1st and 2nd bays, with remains of painted foliated decoration on the
chamfers; timber-framed partition in left wing.
History: a plaque on
the right gable records that Sir Thomas Barlow, 1845-1945, Royal Physician
to Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, and King George V, was born here.
Listing NGR: SD7402216378
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440675
- 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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