Back Oak Cottage

BACK OAK COTTAGE, LOWER ROSEGROVE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1244870
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1977
List Entry Name:
Back Oak Cottage
Statutory Address:
BACK OAK COTTAGE, LOWER ROSEGROVE LANE
Back Oak Cottage on Lower Rosegrove Lane in Rose Grove, Burnley. A cottage that is dated 1842 in the central gable.
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Date:
2002-08-05
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1244870
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1977
List Entry Name:
Back Oak Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
BACK OAK COTTAGE, LOWER ROSEGROVE 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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
BACK OAK COTTAGE, LOWER ROSEGROVE LANE

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Burnley (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 81059 32287

Details

BURNLEY

SD83SW LOWER ROSEGROVE LANE, Rose Grove 906-1/3/237 (North side) 29/09/77 Back Oak Cottage

GV II

Cottage. Dated 1842 in central gable; altered and recently renovated. Coursed rock-faced sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof. Jacobean style. Single-depth double-fronted plan (built back-to-back against Old Oak Cottage (qv). 2 storeys and 3 bays, symmetrical, the centre breaking forwards and gabled; with a 4-centred arched doorway now covered by a recently-added gabled porch, a wooden cross-window above this with a chamfered reveal and a hood-mould, and a heart-shaped shield in the gable above, inscribed "R B / 1842" and surmounted by a lion mask; and large rectangular windows in the flanking bays, all with chamfered reveals and hood-moulds, and 4-pane top-hung casements imitating sashes. Chimneys at both gables and in the centre of the ridge. Left gable has large window at ground floor, like those at the front, and small window above. INTERIOR not inspected. Forms group with Old Oak Cottage (qv).





Listing NGR: SD8105932287

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Legacy System number:
467093
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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