Hill Top Farmhouse
HILL TOP FARMHOUSE, BLACKBURN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260316
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Top Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HILL TOP FARMHOUSE, BLACKBURN ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260316
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Top Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL TOP FARMHOUSE, BLACKBURN 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:
- HILL TOP FARMHOUSE, BLACKBURN 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 73806 17976
Details
SD 71 NW TURTON (off) BLACKBURN ROAD Edgworth 7/91 Hill Top Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse, dated 1721, with later extension, now house. Coursed sandstone with quoins, slate roof with gable chimneys. Two-bay baffle entry plan with long loomshop extension to rear (and modern lean-to at left side). Two storeys. At left hand side a modern gabled porch covers the original doorway (now altered as window) which has a moulded panel in the lintel inscribed ¨S H"; to the 1721 right both floors have 2 stone mullion windows of 4 and 3 lights, those at ground floor with hoodmoulds; and there are some similar windows in the right return and rear walls. Rear extension of 3 bays and 2 slightly lower storeys has a run of multiple-light windows at ground floor of both sides: on the west side 10 lights with 2-light casements at each end but all other lights blocked; and on the east side also originally 10 lights but altered to make a door in the centre, leaving 2 lights at the left end and 3 at the right end; at 1st floor this part has some flush-mullion windows (mostly 3 lights, one lacking mullions); in the angle with the rear wall on the east side is a small gabled porch, and right of it a 3-stage stairlignt with round-headed top light. Interior: housepart in 1st bay has original timber structure of inglenook fireplace including cambered bressummer supported on a heckpost with billet-moulded head; bressummer and 2 beams jointed onto it have tongue-stopped chamfer.
Listing NGR: SD7380617976
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440672
- 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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