Dyke Nook Lodge
Dyke Nook Lodge, Whalley Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280501
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Dyke Nook Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- Dyke Nook Lodge, Whalley Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280501
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Dyke Nook Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- Dyke Nook Lodge, Whalley 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:
- Dyke Nook Lodge, Whalley Road
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 75658 29728
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details
SD 72 NE
5/39
ACCRINGTON
WHALLEY ROAD
Dyke Nook Lodge
(Formerly listed as Dyke Nook)
GV
II
House, dated 1907, by Walter Brierley; now LCC children's home. Unequally coursed sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof with swept eaves covering kneelers, two chimneys on ridges and one at right gable. Three bays and two storeys in C17 vernacular form. Asymmetrical, with varied forms of mullioned windows. Front door at rear, in two-storey outshut between two unequal gabled wings, has moulded surround and a label enclosing lintel dated "1907"; there is a six-light mullion and transom stairlight above and right of this, a narrow stairlight at left end, and four other windows.
Left wing projects (continuing as screen wall with arch), right wing has a window on each floor, the upper of four lights with a label. Right return wall has three windows, one at ground floor of projecting chimney stack. Principal facade to garden has very prominent "summer parlour" with semi-pyramidal roof at junction of second and third bays, with all principal windows left of it: at ground floor a large fourteen-light mullion and transom window with two king mullions and a straight moulded dripstone on consoles, and a six-light window with a label; at first floor two six-light windows with king mullions. There is a walled yard with outbuildings at right end.
Interior: middle room ("hall") has C17-style panelling, with linenfold above stone fireplace which is lettered "19" "HVMB" "07"; and folding doors to parlour. Garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll is mainly altered, but perimeter wall (q.v.) preserved.
Listing NGR: SD7565829728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183840
- 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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