2 and 4, Lower Aspen Cottage
2, Lower Aspen Cottage, Lower Aspen Lane, Oswaldtwistle, BB5 4NY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280404
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1965
- List Entry Name:
- 2 and 4, Lower Aspen Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 2, Lower Aspen Cottage, Lower Aspen Lane, Oswaldtwistle, BB5 4NY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280404
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1965
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 2 and 4, Lower Aspen Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, Lower Aspen Cottage, Lower Aspen Lane, Oswaldtwistle, BB5 4NY
- Statutory Address 2:
- 4, Lower Aspen Cottage, Lower Aspen Lane, Oswaldtwistle, BB5 4NY
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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:
- 2, Lower Aspen Cottage, Lower Aspen Lane, Oswaldtwistle, BB5 4NY
- Statutory Address:
- 4, Lower Aspen Cottage, Lower Aspen Lane, Oswaldtwistle, BB5 4NY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Hyndburn (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 73491 28380
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/12/2018
SD 72 NW
4/88
OSWALDTWISTLE
LOWER ASPEN LANE
Lower Aspen Cottage, Nos. 2 and 4
(formerly listed as Nos. 2 and 4 (Aspen Cottage), previously listed as No.4 (Aspen Cottages)
15.11.1965
GV
II
Farmhouse, early C17, now two dwellings. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins (whitewashed), stone slate roof with stone gable copings (finial on left gable) a brick chimney on the ridge and another at right gable. Three bays and two storeys. Original Tudor-arched front door on south side at junction of second and third bays has chamfered surround; first and second bays both have ten-light double-chamfered stone mullion and transom windows with hoodmoulds, third bay has three-light stone mullion window; first floor has two double-chamfered three-light windows. Right gable has two first floor windows, one originally mullioned. Rear has two doorways, that on left with chamfered surround, the other breaking into one light of original double-chamfered stone mullion window; there is a similar four-light window in second bay, and both these have hoodmoulds; at first floor two similar three-light windows, one lacking mullions.
Interior: believed to have very large chamfered beams, and inglenook with heck.
(Ainsworth Homesteads pp.305-7).
Listing NGR: SD7349128380
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183891
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ainsworth, R, The Old Homesteads of Accrington and District, (1928), 305-7
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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