Higher Oakenbank
HIGHER OAKENBANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243839
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Oakenbank
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER OAKENBANK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243839
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Oakenbank
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER OAKENBANK
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:
- HIGHER OAKENBANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Pendle (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Trawden Forest
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 91467 37196
Details
SD 93 NW
12/302
TRAWDEN
Higher Oakenbank
II
Small farmhouse. Late C17, probably rebuilt and extended late C18; undergoing renovation 1988. Coursed rubble gritstone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys single-cell width, 2 deep; addition set forward on left; rear outshuts to both parts. Original house has large quoins and small, chamfered fire-window on left (mullion removed); to right is a larger 2-light mullioned window with inserted opening on its right. 1st floor: walling is more deeply coursed; 6-light, square-fenced mullioned window with king mullion. Stone end stack on left. Addition, forward on left, has door on right of 2-light, square-faced mullioned window; square hatches over; no roof covering. Right return of original house has a small chamfered window on left and upper floor of more deeply coursed stone with 2-light and 1-light windows.
Interior not inspected: RCHM notes C18 fireplace and doorway through to rear with stopped chamfer; beams and joists in housebody with stopped chamfers; king-post truss with raking struts.
Sarah Pearson, Rural Houses of the Lancashire Pennines 1560-1760, RCHM, 1985, p166.
Listing NGR: SD9146737196
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 186427
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pearson, S, Rural Houses of the Lancashire Pennines 1560-1760, (1985), 166
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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