Slate Pits Farmhouse
SLATE PITS FARMHOUSE, PLANTATION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280559
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Slate Pits Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SLATE PITS FARMHOUSE, PLANTATION STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280559
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Slate Pits Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SLATE PITS FARMHOUSE, PLANTATION STREET
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:
- SLATE PITS FARMHOUSE, PLANTATION STREET
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 77935 29054
Details
ACCRINGTON (off) PLANTATION STREET SD 72 NE 5/27 Slate Pits Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse, C17, part altered in C18. Rubble, stone slate roof with 2 ridge chimney stacks. Three-bay baffle-entry plan with rear outshut (dairy) to 2nd bay, and 3rd bay extended forwards in C18 to make cottage. Two storeys; large lean-to porch at junction of 1st and 2nd bays has quoins, moulded doorcase with Tudor-arched head, and small chamfered window in right side. There is a similar window beneath the eaves above the porch, and the whole building has 7 double-chamfered stone mullion windows: in the front, left of porch one of 5 lights with a hoodmould, and at 1st floor 2 of 4 lights; in left return wall at 1st floor, a 2-light window with a hoodmould; at right end one 3-light window on each floor, the lower lacking one mullion, the upper having small square lights; and in side of outshut a 2-light window. Front of cottage in 3rd bay has door at right side, a 3-light flush mullion window at ground floor and a similar but smaller 2-light window above. Interior: beams set on edge; partly exposed roof trusses at 1st floor; part of moulded plaster frieze with gryphons at 1st floor of 1st bay. (Ainsworth Homesteads pp.38-40)
Listing NGR: SD7793529054
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183824
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ainsworth, R, The Old Homesteads of Accrington and District, (1928), 38-40
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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