Cooper House Farmhouse With Front Wall and Gate Piers

COOPER HOUSE FARMHOUSE WITH FRONT WALL AND GATE PIERS, 145 AND 147, GREGSON LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1290115
Date first listed:
27-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
Cooper House Farmhouse With Front Wall and Gate Piers
Statutory Address:
COOPER HOUSE FARMHOUSE WITH FRONT WALL AND GATE PIERS, 145 AND 147, GREGSON LANE
Cooper House now Farmhouse, dated 1711 but possibly earlier.
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Date:
2000-06-17
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1290115
Date first listed:
27-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
Cooper House Farmhouse With Front Wall and Gate Piers
Statutory Address 1:
COOPER HOUSE FARMHOUSE WITH FRONT WALL AND GATE PIERS, 145 AND 147, GREGSON LANE

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
COOPER HOUSE FARMHOUSE WITH FRONT WALL AND GATE PIERS, 145 AND 147, GREGSON LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lancashire
District:
South Ribble (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 58744 26870

Details

SD 52NE WALTON-LE-DALE GREGSON LANE

5/123 Nos. 145 and 147 (Cooper House - Farmhouse) with front wall and gate piers

GV II

Farmhouse, dated 1711 but possibly earlier, now 2 dwellings. Brick (rendered at front and side), stone plinth and some quoins, slate roof with some stone slates, 2 ridge chimney stacks (one with 4 flues in axial line). L-shaped baffle-entry plan of 3 bays, the 1st being a forward crosswing. 2½ storeys, high stone plinth, bands on 2 levels; gabled single storey porch at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, 2 modern casements on each floor with 2 gabled dormers above them; front of wing has altered openings, a small attic window in the gable and below this a square plaque with worn lettering: C E A (D C?) 1711 Rear wall, largely concealed by various C19 extensions, has, inter alia, a small attic window to wing. Interior: back-to-back inglenook fireplaces in 2nd and 3rd bays, the former with original bressummer; large smoke hood on 1st floor; quarter-round moulded beams on both floors; wing has good staircase of late C17/early C18 type, and in front upper chamber a moulded plaster overmantel with crude foliated patterns surrounding lettering which appears to be: C E A 1 IC 7 11 Floored attic and original purlin roof. Included in item is front garden wall of stone with moulded coping, ball finials, 2 square gate piers with prominent capitals and ball finials.

Listing NGR: SD5874426870

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
358028
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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