Middle Moss and Higher Moss Farmhouse
MIDDLE MOSS AND HIGHER MOSS FARMHOUSE, MOSS FOLD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309350
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Moss and Higher Moss Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLE MOSS AND HIGHER MOSS FARMHOUSE, MOSS FOLD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309350
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Moss and Higher Moss Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDLE MOSS AND HIGHER MOSS FARMHOUSE, MOSS FOLD 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:
- MIDDLE MOSS AND HIGHER MOSS FARMHOUSE, MOSS FOLD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Darwen
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 68076 24165
Details
SD 62 SE DARWEN MOSS FOLD ROAD
4/20 Middle Moss and Higher Moss Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse probably early C17, extended and divided to make two houses in C18. Sandstone rubble with low plinth and quoins, and coursed watershot sandstone, both in diminishing courses; stone slate roof with a pair of chimneys on the ridge and one chimney at each end. Originally 3-bay through-passage plan, the 3rd bay projected as a short gabled wing; altered by addition of one bay at left end, and equal division of the whole with Middle Moss on the left and Higher Moss on the right. All 2 storeys. Middle Moss has various altered casements and simple doorway to 1st bay. Higher Moss has mostly double-chamfered stone mullion windows, and a passage connecting a wide porch entrance (with plain timber lintel) on the left of the gable with a 2-storey porch at the rear; front (east) now has mullioned windows only at 1st floor; two of 3 lights to the left, one of 4 lights in the gable, and a blocked 2-light window in the re-entrant; rear (west) has added 2-storey lean-to porch containing a wide doorway (part blocked) with large Tudor-arched stone lintel, and a small 2-light window under the eaves, left of this a 4-light window on each floor, right of it a 5-light window (2 lights anciently blocked) and at 1st floor one exposed light of a 5-light window - both these partly covered by the porch. Interior: passage has partition wall of posts, rail and scored studs, with 2 doorways, one (now blocked) having a nicked Tudor-arched lintel; housepart has large inglenook with heckpost, ovolo-moulded beams, cyma-stopped chamfered joists; rear porch incorporates spiral stone staircase;some timber framing at 1st floor. Higher Moss unoccupied, used for storage at time of survey.
Listing NGR: SD6807624165
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184691
- 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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