Meadowcroft's Farmhouse
MEADOWCROFT'S FARMHOUSE, BURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260270
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Meadowcroft's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MEADOWCROFT'S FARMHOUSE, BURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260270
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Meadowcroft's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEADOWCROFT'S FARMHOUSE, BURY 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:
- MEADOWCROFT'S FARMHOUSE, BURY 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 74367 16033
Details
SD 71 NW
7/102
TURTON
BURY ROAD
Edgworth
Meadowcroft's Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, probably c.1700, altered, now house. Coursed sandstone
rubble with quoins, slate roof on 2 levels with gable chimneys to
the higher of these. Built on slope, 2 bays with continuous outshut
and smaller added bay slightly lower and set back to the right. Two
storeys: original rear outshut, raised, now entrance front, has modern
porch to 2nd bay, a 3-light window with chamfered mullions to 1st bay,
similar window in centre of 1st floor; 3rd (added) bay has similar
window of 2+3 lights (5th blocked), rear of this part has a 4-light
window on each floor, the lower with a hoodmould and the upper lacking
2 mullions, a doorway with modern canopy and a small round-headed window
above it; rear of main house has 2 large buttresses, a 6-light window
(lacking one mullion) to the 2nd bay, 2 altered windows with flush
mullions at 1st floor. Interior: 2nd bay has large inglenook with
stone heck and chamfered bressummer, containing a stone fireplace
with moulded shouldered jambs and very large lintel undercut as a
depressed arch, recesses for salt cupboards on each side; beams with
cyma-stopped small chamfer; roof of outshut supported by very large
principals and purlins.
Listing NGR: SD7436716033
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440683
- 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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