Lower Tower Hill Farmhouse
LOWER TOWER HILL FARMHOUSE, 108, TOWER HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282595
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Tower Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER TOWER HILL FARMHOUSE, 108, TOWER HILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282595
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Tower Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER TOWER HILL FARMHOUSE, 108, TOWER HILL 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:
- LOWER TOWER HILL FARMHOUSE, 108, TOWER HILL ROAD
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 51708 04865
Details
UP HOLLAND
SD50SW TOWER HILL ROAD 783-1/4/81 (West side) 07/01/52 No.108 Lower Tower Hill Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. now house. Probably early C17 or earlier, with added wing dated 1684 on gable, enlarged to rear; damaged by fire in early C20, and altered. Mostly coursed squared sandstone, with some thin graduated sandstone rubble, and all with quoins; stone slate roofs on 2 levels. 2-unit main range with 2-unit crosswing to left and outshut to rear. 2 storeys, 1:2 windows. The main range is very low (virtually one-and-a-half storeys) and has a ragged vertical joint between the bays, a Tudor-arched doorway close to the wing, with a chamfered surround (and now protected by a C20 glazed porch), 2 large square windows at ground floor with C20 casements, and a small 2-light mullioned window under the eaves slightly to the right of the door, with a chamfered flush mullion; and its right-hand gable has a 2-light sliding sash window to the upper floor. Chimney at junction with wing. The projecting gable of the wing has a square window at ground floor, a 2-light mullioned window at 1st floor (both these like those of the main range), a carved datestone with raised lettering: H/E M/1684, and a moulded gable coping with a finial at the apex and the stumps of finials at the corners; its left return wall has a similar mullioned window at 1st floor of the front bay and an altered window to the rear bay; and its rear gable has altered windows on both floors. The rear outshut, in 2 builds under a deep catslide roof, has casement windows of 3, 1 and 3 lights. INTERIOR: not inspected, but is said to have been rebuilt following fire damage, the only feature of interest now being one chamfered beam in the wing; private survey in 1988 recorded upper cruck truss close to junction of main range and wing. HISTORY: occupied in 1675 by Thomas Hooton, blacksmith (d.1676), and subsequently by Edward Hooton, yeoman, and his wife Margaret. Forms group with remains of former barn approx 30m east (qv). (Private Report and Survey: Miller G: 1988-).
Listing NGR: SD5170804865
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389080
- 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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