SPENSER HOUSE

SPENSER HOUSE, HURSTWOOD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1280543
Date first listed:: 01-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: SPENSER HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SPENSER HOUSE, HURSTWOOD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1280543
Date first listed:: 01-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: SPENSER HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SPENSER HOUSE, HURSTWOOD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SPENSER HOUSE, HURSTWOOD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lancashire
District:: Burnley (District Authority)
Parish:: Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood
National Grid Reference:: SD 88085 31352

Details

SD 83 SE WORSTHORNE WITH HURSTWOOD HURSTWOOD 3/53 Spenser House 1.4.52 GV II*

Farmhouse, now house. Probably mid-C16, altered. Large sandstone blocks brought to courses, with quoins, stone slate roof. H-plan facing south: hall with 2-bay crosswings. Now all 2 storeys, but formerly with central open hall; at left end of hall a low 2-storey porch under carried-down roof of shallow pitch, with wide chamfered outer doorway, a 3-light window above with round-headed lights and hollow spandrels, chamfered inner doorway, and in right hand wall a small arched doorway and a small window above (both blocked, visible internally); hall has two slightly-recessed windows of 3 round-headed lights with hollow spandrels, and above there a large gable with a window to light the inserted upper floor (3 lights with chamfered flush mullions); gable of west wing has an altered 3-light window on each floor; gable of east wing has a 3-light window on each floor, the lower with chamfered flush mullions and the upper with round-headed lights like those in the hall. A ridge chimney on each wing. Rear of hall has a gable in line with that in front, with an apex chimney, various altered openings, and large added outshut, overlapping left wing and hall, with catslide roof and tall chimney at the rear. Left return wall of west wing has a 2-light mullioned window with lintel inscribed "DAIRY". Interior: coupled triangular-headed chamfered doorways into west wing; in front bay of this wing a large rectangular fireplace with moulded surround, compartmented ceiling formed by 4 major and 4 minor beams, all chamfered; stone flagged ceiling to rear bay of this wing (and vaulted cellar below); separated triangular-headed chamfered doorways from hall into east wing; early C17 inserted partition wall at lower end of hall, with chamfered segmental-headed doorway; some early C17 moulded plaster decoration in hall including original surround to head of this door, and between the beams at the opposite end a foliated pattern with little winged figures in the corners; king post roof trusses with angle struts, and arch-braced open trusses in wings. Reference RCHM pp. 174-5 et passim,

Listing NGR: SD8808531352

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 184057
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pearson, S, Rural Houses of the Lancashire Pennines 1560-1760, (1985), 174-5

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.