97, HIGH STREET
97, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242114
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 97, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 97, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242114
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 97, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 97, HIGH STREET
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:
- 97, HIGH STREET
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 73295 15816
Details
SD 71 NW TURTON HIGH STREET Chapeltown
7/126 No. 97 27.1.1967 GV II
House, C18, altered, former rear additions once used as school now demolished. Watershot coursed sandstone with quoins, ashlar porch, stone slate roof with gable chimneys. Single pile 2-bay plan, with parts of former rear extension to 2nd bay remaining. Two storeys; almost symmetrical facade has slightly offset to the right a narrow slightly-projecting 2-storey porch of ashlar in Jacobean style: chamfered doorway with rectangular fanlignt and hoodmould, tall 2-light mullioned window with hoodmould at 1st floor, a carved crest in a panel above this, steeply-pitched gable with coping scrolled at the eaves, and large finial at the apex (this part, probably early C19, matches similar feature at Clough House Farmhouse, q.v.); 2 mullioned windows on each floor, all of 3 tall lights with glazing bars and hoodmoulds (probably contemporary with porch). Continuing to rear of right return wall is a long high wall, the 1st part of which breaks forward slightly and has an elaborate arched Gothick doorway with ogee hoodmould, and a panel containing the Chetham arms above this. Interior: central hallway (probably C19 alteration) with ¼-turn stairs at the back; stone fireplace in room on each side; at 1st floor, timber framed partition walls, batten and board doors, and blocked doorways in rear wall.
Listing NGR: SD7329515816
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440707
- 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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