Greenthorne
GREENTHORNE, BROADHEAD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241931
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Greenthorne
- Statutory Address:
- GREENTHORNE, BROADHEAD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241931
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Greenthorne
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREENTHORNE, BROADHEAD 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:
- GREENTHORNE, BROADHEAD 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 74395 17174
Details
SD 71 NW TURTON (off) BROADHiIhD ROAD Edgworth
7/100 Greenthorne - GV II
Manufacturer's mansion, 1860, for James Barlow. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, 2-span slate roof with cross-gables, various chimneys. Rectangular plan, roughly 4x3 bays. Two and 2½ storeys, in free Gothic style, with steeply-pitched roofs and gables, some pointed arched doors and windows. Principal feature of the asymmetrical left side is a large 2-storey porch which rises above the eaves, has bands on 2 levels, sloped diagonal buttresses to the ground floor dying into chamfered corners at 1st floor, a triangular- headed moulded doorway offset to the right, a pointed light above the band to the left, a 1st floor window of 5 pointed lights, a parapet and a hipped monopitched roof running up into the gable of the stairwell. To the left of this the main features are a tall gabled dormer breaking the eaves, and beyond this a gabled crosswing with an oriel window at 1st floor and attic window of 2 pointed lights. To the right is a tall extruded chimney stack. Garden front (right return wall) has 2 gables with large 1st floor windows, between them at 1st floor a small window of 3 pointed lights, to the right at ground floor a canted bay window, and the rest of the ground floor is covered by a large rectangular conservatory with glazed walls and hipped glazed roof protected by a balustrade. Interior is little altered.
Listing NGR: SD7439517174
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440681
- 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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