Lower Whittlestone Head Farmhouse
LOWER WHITTLESTONE HEAD FARMHOUSE, WHITTLESTONE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241574
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Whittlestone Head Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER WHITTLESTONE HEAD FARMHOUSE, WHITTLESTONE ROAD
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- 1999-09-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/01785/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241574
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Whittlestone Head Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER WHITTLESTONE HEAD FARMHOUSE, WHITTLESTONE 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:
- LOWER WHITTLESTONE HEAD FARMHOUSE, WHITTLESTONE 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 71979 19524
Details
SD 71 NW TURTON WHITTLESTONE ROAD
7/141 Lower Whittlestone Head Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse, probably late C17, now house. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, slate roof with chimney stack close to left gable. Two-bay baffle-entry plan. Two low storeys. Large single-storey gabled porch at left end of front has moulded segmental-headed doorway offset left, small round-headed opening in the gable above; to the right are 2 windows on each floor, all now lacking all original mullions: those at ground floor, of 3 and 2 lights with chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds, now casements with glazing bars, and those above of 2 lights, both lengthened downwards. There is a small round-headed window at 1st floor of left return wall, and a hoodmould above an altered ground floor window to the rear of the 1st bay. Flat-roofed modern porch to rear, 2 altered windows above. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD7197919524
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440724
- 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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