Ashes Farmhouse
ASHES FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317748
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Ashes Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ASHES FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317748
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Ashes Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHES FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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:
- ASHES FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Goosnargh
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 56552 40946
Details
SD 54 SE GOOSNARGH CHURCH LANE Whitechapel
2/43 Ashes Farmhouse 11.11.1966 II
Farmhouse, C17 and early C18, altered. Whitewashed handmade brick and white concrete brick, with stone quoins, slate roof. Square plan formed by early C18 3-bay front range with rear wing to right half embracing a similar but earlier wing to the rear of the left half. Two storeys; symmetrical facade, recently rebuilt in white concrete brick, with a 3-course "moulded" band (the ends of which do not quite reach the corners of the wall), has a doorway with large long-and-short jambstones, moulded surround, and large stepped tympanum containing carving of a head, draped wings, and crude scroll-work, all within a triangle; 2 cross windows at ground floor and 3 above, all modern casements in stone surrounds. Right return wall, and both wings, have high stone plinth, blocked vertical rectangular windows with plain projecting architraves (one modern window on each floor of return wall, glazed porch and single-storey extension embracing the rear corner). Rear: gable wall of the old wing has at ground floor the remains of a high stepped label (like that over the front door) with double-returned ends (over a modern inserted window), at 1st floor over this a recessed 7-light wooden mullion window mostly rendered over but with geometrical leaded glazing visible in 2 lights (like that at Wood Fold Farmhouse, q.v.), a label over the window; and close to the junction of the wings a full-height segmental-headed stairlight with keystone, partly blocked. Chimneys at junction of wings with front range. Interior: unusually high ground floor rooms; said to have internal wall 1½ metres thick, with cavities large enough to hide several men (remains of stack?). History: from late C16 to mid C18 was home of recusant Threlfall family, Edmund Threlfall, active in Lancashire Plot of 1689, killed here 1690 (tympanum of door may be posthumous representation of him). Reference: Fishwick Goosnargh pp. 162-8. (Other similar houses in this parish, with comparable history, include Blake Hall, Bullsnape Hall, and White Hill and White Lee farmhouses, q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD5655240946
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185890
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fishwick, , Goosnargh, (1871), 162-8
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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