Former Plane Tree Public House
4, WESTGATE, BURNLEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313393
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Former Plane Tree Public House
- Statutory Address:
- 4, WESTGATE, BURNLEY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313393
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Former Plane Tree Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4, WESTGATE, BURNLEY
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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:
- 4, WESTGATE, BURNLEY
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 83651 32659
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/02/2015
SD8332NE
906-1/15/156
BURNLEY,
WESTGATE (West side),
Former Plane Tree Public House (No. 4)
(Formerly listed as Plane Tree Public House)
29/09/77
GV II
House, now public house. Remodelled as public house 1895-7. By
Charles Parsons; altered. Sandstone ashlar (sides and rear of
random rubble); roof concealed but probably slate. Jacobean
style. Rectangular double-depth plan.
3 storeys and 4 unequal bays; with a chamfered plinth, string
courses, pilasters and wall-shafts to the upper floors, a
panelled parapet with ball finials, and shaped upstands over
the 2nd and 4th bays, both flanked by obelisk finials and that
to the left with raised lettering "PLANE TREE". The ground
floor has a round-headed doorway to the 2nd bay, with an
architrave including Mannerist Ionic pilasters and a
strap-work parapet with obelisk finials; mullion-and-transom
windows of 8 lights to the left, 6 lights to the right, and a
bowed 8-light window to the 4th bay. On the upper floors the
2nd and 4th bays have coupled windows with Ionic colonnettes,
flanked by pilasters; the 1st bay has 2 windows and the 3rd
bay has one window; and all these windows are now C20 top-hung
casements with applied diamond lattice leading.
INTERIOR altered.
HISTORY: before remodelling in 1895, was occupied as private
house by William Hopwood, cotton spinner and manufacturer, one
of Burnley's richest men.
Listing NGR: SD8365132659
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467243
- 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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