Dean House Farmhouse
DEAN HOUSE FARMHOUSE, LAFFORD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291280
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Dean House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DEAN HOUSE FARMHOUSE, LAFFORD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291280
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Dean House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEAN HOUSE FARMHOUSE, 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:
- DEAN HOUSE FARMHOUSE, 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 52589 06196
Details
UP HOLLAND
SD50NW LAFFORD LANE 783-1/2/39 (East side) Dean House Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, now house. Probably early C17; altered. Coursed squared sandstone, stone slate roof. Rectangular single-depth 4-bay plan, formerly with baffle-entry from east side (now the rear). 2 storeys and 4 windows, with a high plinth to the northern half (carried round), a doorway to the 3rd bay, large modernised casement windows on both floors, and a cut-down chimney at the junction of the 1st and 2nd bays. The north gable wall has a 5-light double-chamfered stone mullion window with a cavetto-moulded hoodmould and above this a stone plaque carved with the Legs-of-Man and raised letters "T N". The rear wall, now covered at the north end by a C19 stone lean-to which serves as a porch to doorway inserted close to the corner, has a blocked chamfered one-light window to the 1st bay, blocked former doorway at the junction of the 1st and 2nd bays, blocked 4-light window to the 2nd bay with chamfered flush mullions; and, beyond the lean-to, a 2-light window with flush ovolo-and-fillet mullion. INTERIOR: the 1st bay (now kitchen) has large beam with broad chamfer; the 2nd bay contains large inglenook with stone heck which has a moulded 2-stage shoulder and chamfered bressumer with cyma stops, and large lateral beam with broad chamfer and similar stops; the partition wall between 2nd and 3rd bays has a similar beam; and the 3rd bay has a crudely chamfered lateral beam. HISTORY: said to have been built as hunting lodge, and occupied by Lord Derby on the eve of his advance to Wigan during the Civil War.
Listing NGR: SD5258906196
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389003
- 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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