Nabbs Cottage

NABBS COTTAGE, GREENS ARMS ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1242049
Date first listed:
27-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Nabbs Cottage
Statutory Address:
NABBS COTTAGE, GREENS ARMS ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1242049
Date first listed:
27-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
27-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Nabbs Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
NABBS COTTAGE, GREENS ARMS ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
NABBS COTTAGE, GREENS ARMS ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NABBS COTTAGE, GREENS ARMS ROAD
Statutory Address:
NABBS COTTAGE, GREENS ARMS 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 72558 16796

Details

SD 71 NW; 7/117

TURTON,
GREENS ARMS ROAD, Chapeltown,
Nabbs Cottage

(Formerly listed as Nabbs Cottage with adjacent farm buildings)


27.1.1967

II

Farmhouse with attached barn under one roof dated 1748, now house.
Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, slate roof with one chimney on
the ridge (originally right gable). Two-bay plan (3rd bay added at
right end not included in the item). Two storeys; single-storey lean-to
porch at right end with rectangular lintel over door in left side, and
slit peephole in front wall; to the left are two 4-light windows with
chamfered mullions and plain hoodmoulds, and at 1st floor three windows with
similar mullions, of three, two, and three lights. Barn continued to left has
outshut to 1st bay with a doorway at the left end, the lintel lettered
JL , and two modern garage doorways in the 2nd bay; left gable wall has
1748
owl hole with perching stone. Rear is mostly altered and has recent
additions in compatible materials and style. Interior of house has
timber-framed partitions.


Listing NGR: SD7255816796

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
440698
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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