Top of Quarlton Farmhouse
TOP OF QUARLTON FARMHOUSE, RAMSBOTTOM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260131
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Top of Quarlton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TOP OF QUARLTON FARMHOUSE, RAMSBOTTOM ROAD
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- 1999-09-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/01783/31
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260131
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Top of Quarlton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOP OF QUARLTON FARMHOUSE, RAMSBOTTOM 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:
- TOP OF QUARLTON FARMHOUSE, RAMSBOTTOM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Turton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 75304 15694
Details
SD 71 NE TURTON (off) RAMSBOTTOM ROAD Walves
8/136 Top of Quarlton Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse, anciently known as Quarlton Old Hall, C16, altered in C17 and C18, renovated in 1960's, now house. Coursed sandstone blocks with large quoins, slate roof with chimneys at south end on ridge and at gables. L-shaped plan: earliest range on north-south axis 2 (perhaps 3) bays now mostly used as barn, with a wing added to east side of south end subsequently extended forwards to the south and across the original gable end. Two storeys. Original front facing slope on west side appears to have been raised; at ground floor 3rd bay includes original doorway to through passage (now altered as window), a 4-light double-chamfered stone mullion window with a hoodmould to the right of it; to the left under a continuous dripmould are windows of 4 lights in the 1st bay, 5 lights in the 2nd, the dripmould stepping over this, and a window with 2 round-headed lights; at 1st floor the 1st bay has a 4-light window with hoodmould, the 2nd has an inserted window and on the stepped portion of the band a rectangular surround of unknown purpose, and the 3rd has a later 4-light window. Rear, (present front) has a moulded doorway opposed to that at the front with a square window over the lintel and a blocked round-headed light to the left; to the right of the door altered masonry under an old gable line indicates a former lower wing. The present wing on the left, which is also lower, has a vertical joint with quoins in the middle of the gable wall, a round-headed light beyond this, a similar light at 1st floor to the right, and a small square window to the right of the ground floor. The south end wall of roughly 3 bays has a vertical joint with quoins to the 3rd bay, a doorway and a mullioned window to the right with an C18 3-light window above; and to the left coupled triple-light windows and a 2-light window at ground floor, a 3-light window above, all these of C18 type with flush mullions. Interior: altered, but contains at least one pair of cruck trusses, visible in the through-passage.
Listing NGR: SD7530415694
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440719
- 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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