Laburnum Cottage and Attached Store to Right

LABURNUM COTTAGE AND ATTACHED STORE TO RIGHT, 17, ASHFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298378
Date first listed:
18-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:
Laburnum Cottage and Attached Store to Right
Statutory Address:
LABURNUM COTTAGE AND ATTACHED STORE TO RIGHT, 17, ASHFORD ROAD
Laburnum Cottage. Number 17 Ashford Road. Former farmhouse and attached store to right, Scotforth.
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Date:
2002-09-17
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298378
Date first listed:
18-Feb-1970
Date of most recent amendment:
13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:
Laburnum Cottage and Attached Store to Right
Statutory Address 1:
LABURNUM COTTAGE AND ATTACHED STORE TO RIGHT, 17, ASHFORD ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
LABURNUM COTTAGE AND ATTACHED STORE TO RIGHT, 17, ASHFORD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lancashire
District:
Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 47932 59341

Details

LANCASTER

SD45NE ASHFORD ROAD, Scotforth 1685-1/2/333 (South side) 18/02/70 No.17 Laburnum Cottage and attached store to right (Formerly Listed as: ASHFORD ROAD, Scotforth No.17)

II

Farmhouse and attached stable, now house and store (in separate ownership). Mid C18. altered C20. Painted sandstone random rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins. Graduated Westmorland slate roofs, and coped gables with kneelers and gable stacks. Shallow double-depth 4-room plan, plus set-back single-unit side wings on the same axis. All 2 storeys, 1+2+1 bays. The central block has a slightly off-centre doorway and two 12-pane sash windows on each floor, all these openings with raised plain surrounds. The set-back side wings are slightly lower. That on the left has a large 3-light casement at ground floor and a top-hung casement above, and that on the right (the former stable) is not painted, has a 12-pane fixed window at 1st floor, a gable chimney, a waggon doorway in the gable wall and a loft doorway in the rear wall approached by external steps. The rear of the central element has a former doorway in the centre altered as a window, an inserted doorway to the 2nd bay and 3 other small windows. INTERIOR: cellar under right-hand half of house.

Listing NGR: SD4793259341

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
383036
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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