Wimbrick House
WIMBRICK HOUSE, PRESCOT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297318
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Wimbrick House
- Statutory Address:
- WIMBRICK HOUSE, PRESCOT ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-11-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/09290/15
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297318
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Wimbrick House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WIMBRICK HOUSE, PRESCOT 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:
- WIMBRICK HOUSE, PRESCOT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 40744 07516
Details
ORMSKIRK
SD40NW PRESCOT ROAD 663-1/4/172 (West side) 11/08/72 Wimbrick House
II
Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1783 on rainwater head at left corner. Hand-made brown brick in Flemish bond (English garden wall bond sides and rear). Rectangular double-depth double-fronted plan, plus small service wing attached to rear left corner. Two storeys plus cellars and attics, 3 windows, almost symmetrical. The doorway, offset slightly right, is round-headed with a tall pedimented architrave including panelled pilasters and rosettes on the entablatures, a 4-panel door, and fanlight with radiating glazing bars. The ground floor has 2 large segmental-headed tripartite sashed windows with glazing bars; the 1st floor has 3 widely spaced 12-pane sashed windows; and all these sashes are unhorned and have exposed boxes. Gable chimneys. Attached to the left corner is a downspout which has a lead rainwater head and bracket below with raised lettering "R S" and "1783 respectively. This gable has a round-headed attic window; and attached to the rear corner is a low single-storey service wing with a lean-to porch in the angle and tripartite windows. The right-hand gable wall has 2 large tripartite windows at ground floor, like those at the front, two 12-pane sashes at 1st floor, and a round-headed attic window; and continued to the rear a ramped screen wall with an archway at the junction. The rear has a lean-to porch in the centre (altered as a toilet, and the doorway blocked), a C20 tripartite window to the right (like the others) and two 12-pane sashes above. INTERIOR: elegant stone spiral staircase in enclosed position between kitchen and morning room, continued down to cellars.
Listing NGR: SD4074407516
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386412
- 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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