Sorbrose House
SORBROSE HOUSE, NABS HEAD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290252
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sorbrose House
- Statutory Address:
- SORBROSE HOUSE, NABS HEAD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290252
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sorbrose House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SORBROSE HOUSE, NABS HEAD 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:
- SORBROSE HOUSE, NABS HEAD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- South Ribble (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Samlesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 62020 29912
Details
SD 62NW SAMLESBURY NABS HEAD LANE
6/90 Sorbrose House - - II
Farmhouse, c. 1700. Brick on stone plinth, roof of slate (front) and stone slates (rear) with a chimney stack on the ridge and another at the left gable. Three-bay baffle-entry plan. Two storeys; walling of Flemish bond with a band of 3 courses; 2-storey gabled porch at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, protecting a board door with 2 bolection-moulded panels, a window at 1st floor; otherwise modern top hung casements in square openings with gauged brick heads and concrete sills. Left gable has 2 attic windows, right gable has a C19 belfry opening to the attic, and rear wall various windows, some with segmental heads. Former single storey dairy at right end now garage. Interior: good contemporary staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail rising full height in 2nd bay; contemporary doors with bolection moulded panels. House owned and occupied by descendants of Robert Hubberstey, yeoman, since early C18. (R. Eaton History of Samlesbury)
Listing NGR: SD6202029912
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357995
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Eaton, R, History of Samlesbury, (1936)
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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