No. 43, BURSCOUGH STREET
WALTER BROWN HOUSE, 43, BURSCOUGH STREET, L39 2JQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297539
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- No. 43, BURSCOUGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WALTER BROWN HOUSE, 43, BURSCOUGH STREET, L39 2JQ
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- Date:
- 1999-10-31
- Reference:
- IOE01/01687/34
- Rights:
- © Mr Walter Lyon. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297539
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- No. 43, BURSCOUGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALTER BROWN HOUSE, 43, BURSCOUGH STREET, L39 2JQ
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:
- WALTER BROWN HOUSE, 43, BURSCOUGH STREET, L39 2JQ
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:
- SD4147708381
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/09/2017
SD 4108 SW,
663-1/7/132
ORMSKIRK,
BURSCOUGH STREET (West side),
No. 43
11/05/53
GV
II
Large town house, offices when surveyed, now flats. Mid to late C18, altered and extended.
Red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings, hipped
roof now clad with corrugated asbestos sheet.
Rectangular plan formed by main range parallel to the street,
with semi-circular stair-turret to the rear, with added back
extensions. Georgian style.
Three storeys with cellar and attic, 1:3:1 bays, symmetrical,
the 3-bay centre breaking forwards slightly and pedimented;
with a rendered plinth, 1st-floor band, moulded cornice and
blocking course.
The ground floor has 4-pane sashed windows and a central
round-headed doorway in an open-pedimented Ionic doorcase with
engaged columns, recessed steps to altered double doors, a
stone plaque over the lintel inscribed "URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL
OFFICES", and a semi-circular fanlight.
At first floor the 3-bay centre has an arcade of round-headed
blank arches, with plain stone bases and imposts to the
pilasters, and a central round-headed sashed window with
glazing bars; and four 12-pane sashed windows with raised
sills and flat-arched heads.
The second floor has square windows with similar sills and heads,
that to the left blind and the others with altered 12-paned
glazing; and the pediment contains a pair of small
round-headed attic windows with glazing bars. Ridge chimney
and side-wall chimneys.
Right-hand return wall (to Derby Street) has various sashed
windows. Rear has semicircular stair-turret.
INTERIOR: good dog-legged open-string staircase.
Listing NGR: SD4147708381
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386369
- 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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