Green Hill Bowling Club

GREEN HILL BOWLING CLUB, 163, MANCHESTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1244903
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:
Green Hill Bowling Club
Statutory Address:
GREEN HILL BOWLING CLUB, 163, MANCHESTER ROAD
Number 163 Manchester Road, Burnley, Green Hill Bowling Club. A former farmhouse, probably from the early 17th century.
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Date:
2002-07-07
Reference:
IOE01/06589/32
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1244903
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:
Green Hill Bowling Club
Statutory Address 1:
GREEN HILL BOWLING CLUB, 163, MANCHESTER ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:
GREEN HILL BOWLING CLUB, 163, MANCHESTER ROAD

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 83444 32030

Details

BURNLEY

SD8332SW MANCHESTER ROAD 906-1/18/85 (West side) 10/11/51 No.163 Green Hill Bowling Club

GV II

Farmhouse, now club. Probably earlier C17; remodelled in C19, with additions; and altered internally in C20. Sandstone random rubble with quoins (and all painted white), stone slate roof. Probably formerly a 3-bay baffle-entry plan; with a projecting porch, and additions to the rear. 2 storeys, 1:1:2 windows. The wide full-height gabled porch, offset to the left, has a very wide C19 Tudor-arched doorway with a moulded surround, and at 1st floor a recessed 2-light mullioned window with cavetto mullion, arched lights with hollow spandrels and a hood-mould, and gable coping with kneelers. Otherwise, both floors have 3-light mullioned windows with cavetto mullions and hood-moulds, those at ground floor with tall arched lights and hollow spandrels and those above with square-headed lights. Gable copings with kneelers, and tall gable chimneys. The left gable wall has a tall cross-window to the staircase, and a projecting addition with a 4-light window on each floor of its gable wall. The right-hand return wall has a blocked doorway to the main range and a small one-light window above this. Added rear range has similar mullioned windows, a blocked doorway and a small back extension. INTERIOR radically remodelled (partition walls removed).





Listing NGR: SD8344432030

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Legacy System number:
467126
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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