Rothwell House
ROTHWELL HOUSE, LAFFORD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282564
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Rothwell House
- Statutory Address:
- ROTHWELL HOUSE, LAFFORD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282564
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Rothwell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROTHWELL HOUSE, LAFFORD LANE
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:
- ROTHWELL HOUSE, LAFFORD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Up Holland
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 52326 05845
Details
UP HOLLAND
SD5205 LAFFORD LANE 783-1/7/46 (West side) 11/03/92 Rothwell House
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Mid C18, altered. Handmade red and yellow brick in Flemish bond (sides and rear of red brick in English garden wall bond), with sandstone rubble plinth and slate roof. Rectangular double-depth 4-room plan. 2 storeys and 2 windows, almost symmetrical; with a plinth of graduated masonry approx 1m high; a segmental-headed doorway offset left of centre, with a deep rough-brick arch and a keystone, and a renewed board door; and cross-window sliding sash windows on both floors, those at ground floor with similar arched heads and keystones, and replacement sliding sashes without glazing bars, and those at 1st floor with flat-arched heads, lead-sheet sills and original small-paned leaded glazing. Gable chimneys. The left gable wall has an inserted doorway to the rear room, and various windows; the rear has an inserted 2-light sliding sash window in place of the original back door, a staircase cross-window in the centre, an inserted doorway in place of the former dairy window to the left, and sliding sash windows of 2 and 3 lights at 1st floor. INTERIOR: direct entry to left front room, chamfered beams in all ground floor rooms, pegged oak doorcases with run-out chamfer and batten-and-board doors with lug hinges both floors (dogleg staircase and former dairy both altered). A good example of its type and date. Forms group with wash-house approx 5m south-west (qv).
Listing NGR: SD5232605845
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389008
- 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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