Lower Houses Farmhouse

LOWER HOUSES FARMHOUSE, HADDINGS LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1243418
Date first listed:
01-Apr-1953
List Entry Name:
Lower Houses Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
LOWER HOUSES FARMHOUSE, HADDINGS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1243418
Date first listed:
01-Apr-1953
List Entry Name:
Lower Houses Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
LOWER HOUSES FARMHOUSE, HADDINGS LANE

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

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:
LOWER HOUSES FARMHOUSE, HADDINGS LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lancashire
District:
Pendle (District Authority)
Parish:
Goldshaw Booth
National Grid Reference:
SD 81024 37919

Details

SD 83 NW 10/143

GOLDSHAW BOOTH
HADDINGS LANE
Lower Houses Farmhouse

1.4.53

II
House. C17, possibly earlier. Stone. Stone slate roof. Stone coping. hint has gabled 2-storey porch with Tudor arched entrance, internal side benches and inner Tudor doorway. Above is a panel inscribed MS/1592/HS and a 2-light window with returned dripstone. Hall portion to right has one 3-light and 4-light window on each floor, some with chamfered and some with convex moulded mullions. A continuous drip label extends over ground floor.The ground floor 3-light window has stained glass reputed to be from Whalley Abbey.Flush gabled wing to left has a 2-light and 4-light window on ground floor divided by king mullion. Above is a 3-light window. Left-hand return contains one 2-light and one 3-light window on the ground floor with 2 centre chamfered doorway between. Above are two 3-light windows. Complicated development
see (35/p147/RCHM).


Listing NGR: SD8102437919

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Legacy System number:
186300
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pearson, S, Rural Houses of the Lancashire Pennines 1560-1760, (1985), 147

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Lower Houses Farmhouse

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