BURNLEY HOUSE

BURNLEY HOUSE, 39, 41 AND 43, WESTGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313390
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: BURNLEY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BURNLEY HOUSE, 39, 41 AND 43, WESTGATE

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Date:: 2002-10-13
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1313390
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1977
List Entry Name:: BURNLEY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BURNLEY HOUSE, 39, 41 AND 43, WESTGATE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: BURNLEY HOUSE, 39, 41 AND 43, WESTGATE

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Burnley (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 83516 32780

Details

BURNLEY

SD8332NE WESTGATE 906-1/15/153 (North side) 29/09/77 Nos.39, 41 AND 43 Burnley House

GV II

Terrace of 3 town houses, now integrated as residential nursing home. Early to mid C19; altered. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof hipped at right-hand end. Double-depth plan, each house double-fronted, plus a set-back receding wing at the right-hand end. 2 storeys over cellars, 3+3+3 windows, formerly symmetrical; with raised rusticated quoins and a moulded gutter cornice. Each house has a symmetrical facade with a large central doorway which has an Ionic architrave with engaged columns, plain frieze and moulded cornice, and a recessed panelled door with plain overlight (No.43 to the left now lacking the cornice); No.41 now has an enlarged window to the left at ground floor, otherwise, all the windows are vertical-rectangular with raised sills and plain surrounds, and all now with altered glazing. Coped gable and gable chimney to No.43, ridge chimney at junction of Nos 41 & 43 (both these chimneys corniced), and 2 other ridge chimneys cut down. Left gable wall of watershot masonry, with 4 windows at ground floor and one above, and an unusual horizontal gutter at carried on a corbel-table at eaves level (presumably to convey rainwater from the front gutter to a downspout at the rear). Receding wing at the right-hand end, single-storey, in similar style to front. C20 extensions to the rear. INTERIORS not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD8351632780

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Legacy System number:: 467240
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.