Chorcliffe House
CHORCLIFFE HOUSE, 2, HOLLINSHEAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281477
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Chorcliffe House
- Statutory Address:
- CHORCLIFFE HOUSE, 2, HOLLINSHEAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281477
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Chorcliffe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHORCLIFFE HOUSE, 2, HOLLINSHEAD 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:
- CHORCLIFFE HOUSE, 2, HOLLINSHEAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 58313 17810
Details
SD 5817 NW CHORLEY HOLLINSHEAD STREET
10/54 No.2 (Chorcliffe House) 29.11.1978 GV II
Large town house, early C19, now flats. Red brick in Flemish bond, stone dressings, two-span slate roof with one chimney at left gable, 2 at right gable, 2 on the front ridge and one on the rear ridge. Deep double-pile plan of 6 bays. Three storeys with stone plinth and coping; 3rd bay, breaking forwards slightly, has a wide elliptical-headed doorway with margin lights, Doric demi-columns, double doors, triglyph-fluted frieze and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars and 2 pierced bands, 2nd bay has a service door, with a round-headed and a square window on one sill to the right of it; otherwise, all openings have sashed windows with glazing bars, stone sills and heads (splayed at ground and 1st floors). Right return wall has 3 windows on each upper floor (mostly sashed with glazing bars). Rear has a canted bay to full height of 3rd bay (large sashed tripartite windows with glazing bars on first 2 floors, sashed windows on 3 sides of 2nd floor); doorway with rectangular stone case in 4th bay, 2 stairlight windows above (the 1st Venetian, the 2nd round- headed, and both with Gothick glazing bars in the heads); other windows in this wall sashed with glazing bars. Interior: original staircase, and some original fireplaces, but not fully inspected.
Listing NGR: SD5831317810
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357570
- 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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