Towneley Farmhouse and Towneley Farm Cottages Numbers 1 and 2
TOWNELEY FARMHOUSE AND TOWNELEY FARM COTTAGES NUMBERS 1 AND 2, TODMORDEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247296
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Towneley Farmhouse and Towneley Farm Cottages Numbers 1 and 2
- Statutory Address:
- TOWNELEY FARMHOUSE AND TOWNELEY FARM COTTAGES NUMBERS 1 AND 2, TODMORDEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247296
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Towneley Farmhouse and Towneley Farm Cottages Numbers 1 and 2
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWNELEY FARMHOUSE AND TOWNELEY FARM COTTAGES NUMBERS 1 AND 2, TODMORDEN 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.
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:
- TOWNELEY FARMHOUSE AND TOWNELEY FARM COTTAGES NUMBERS 1 AND 2, TODMORDEN 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 85643 30654
Details
BURNLEY
SD8530 TODMORDEN ROAD, Burnley Wood 906-1/7/181 (East side (off)) 29/09/77 Towneley Farmhouse and Towneley Farm Cottages Nos 1 and 2 (Formerly Listed as: TODMORDEN ROAD (East side) Nos.1 AND 2 Towneley Farm Towneley Hall)
GV II
Farmhouse, now 3 dwellings (Cottage No.2 unoccupied at time of survey, 1991). Late C17, enlarged and altered in C19. Main range of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins (all white-washed) and stone slate roof; C19 addition of coursed rock-faced sandstone with Welsh slate roof. PLAN: the C17 range has a 3-unit double-depth plan (an early example at this social level), aligned approximately east-west and facing north, with an added outshut to the rear; the C19 addition is at the east end facing east. EXTERIOR: the C17 portion, a 2-storey 3-bay range, irregularly fenestrated, with 4 windows at 1st floor, has a blocked square-headed C17 doorway with chamfered surround at the junction of the 2nd and 3rd bays; an inserted C19 doorway to the 1st bay and an inserted window to the right of this; coupled 12-pane sashed windows in the 2nd bay with a chamfered mullion and incorporating the left jamb of a formerly smaller window, a semi-basement window to the left of these and the jamb of a former window above this; a 3-light double-chamfered 3-light mullioned window in the 3rd bay; and at 1st floor a 2-light mullioned window to the left (vertically aligned with the basement window), and coupled square 16-pane sashes in the 2nd and 3rd bays, the former with a timber sill. Attached at the west gable is an added cart shed which is not of special interest). The rear, of 2 lower storeys, has recessed mullioned windows on both floors of the 2nd and 3rd bays, those at ground floor both of 3 lights, with hood-moulds, and those above of 3 and 4 lights; an inserted doorway to the 3rd bay; an added outshut at the junction of the 1st and 2nd bays covering a C17 square-headed doorway with chamfered surround, and small-paned sashed windows to the right of this. The C19 addition, of 2 higher storeys, has a symmetrical 3-window east front in Jacobean style with a central doorway and 2-light mullioned windows furnished with 8-pane sashes, all these openings
having hood-moulds. A long single-storey outbuilding attached at right-angles to the north side at the junction of the 2 builds is not of special interest). INTERIOR: mostly remodelled in C19, but retains some beams with small chamfer. Forms group with barn approximately 50m west (qv).
Listing NGR: SD8564330654
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467227
- 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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