Rotheram Top Farmhouse
ROTHERAM TOP FARMHOUSE, PRESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281043
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Rotheram Top Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROTHERAM TOP FARMHOUSE, PRESTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281043
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Rotheram Top Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROTHERAM TOP FARMHOUSE, PRESTON 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:
- ROTHERAM TOP FARMHOUSE, PRESTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whittle-le-Woods
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 58094 20184
Details
SD 52 SE WITTLE-LE-WOODS PRESTON ROAD
3/166 Rotheram Top Farmhouse 17.4.1967 - II
Farmhouse, C17, altered. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, slate roof with a chimney behind the ridge (2 other chimneys at rear). Three-bay baffle-entry plan (recently extended at left end in similar materials). Two storeys; 2-storey gabled porch at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays has plain doorway with large lintel, jambs of large stone blocks, former 1st floor window now blocked. 3 windows on each floor, all with altered glazing; those at ground floor left of porch have a continuous hoodmould, chamfered surround, one remaining mullion to each, and now 2 and 4 lights; others are casements in altered openings. Right end wall has a blocked 1st floor doorway and evidence of former external steps where there is now a window. Rear has outshut to 1st bay (with a modern catslide roof), a window in the 2nd bay which has a chamfered stone case, one remaining mullion, and a hoodmould; and a blocked doorway in the 3rd bay. Interior: altered, but 2nd bay retains large inglenook fireplace with ovolo-moulded bressummer, and beams which are also ovolo-moulded and stopped.
Listing NGR: SD5809420184
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357686
- 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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