Greenhill Farmhouse
GREENHILL FARMHOUSE, ASH BROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290793
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Greenhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GREENHILL FARMHOUSE, ASH BROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290793
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Greenhill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREENHILL FARMHOUSE, ASH BROW
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:
- GREENHILL FARMHOUSE, ASH BROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 48559 10280
Details
NEWBURGH
SD4810 ASH BROW 663-1/6/90 (South side) 11/08/72 Greenhill Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1748 on canopy over door; altered. Brown and yellow brick in Flemish bond, on plinth of coursed squared sandstone, with stone slate roof. Double-depth 4-room plan. Two storeys and attic, a symmetrical 3-window facade, with a high chamfered plinth, a central doorway with a raised-panel door, wooden doorcase and gabled stone slab canopy on large brackets, the tympanum inscribed C H A T C 1748 and sashed windows which have flat-arched heads with keystones (all now glazed with 2 panes in the lower leaf and 6 panes in the upper). Boarded eaves; gable chimneys. The left gable has a low segmental-headed window at ground floor, another at 1st floor (the former a casement and the latter a sliding sash) and a small 2-light window to the attic; rear windows mostly altered. INTERIOR: exposed beams; doglegged staircase to 1st floor with closed string and turned balusters; fielded panel doors on both floors, those to the front rooms with H-L hinges and those to the back rooms with lug hinges (allowing the doors to lifted off); very small chamber fireplaces in front rooms (now blocked) with deep cambered lintels; purlin roof including some re-used timbers.
Listing NGR: SD4855910280
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386328
- 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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