Martin House Farmhouse
MARTIN HOUSE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317802
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Martin House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MARTIN HOUSE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317802
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Martin House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARTIN HOUSE 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:
- MARTIN HOUSE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Heskin
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 52971 13885
Details
HESKIN CHURCH LANE (off) SD 51 SE Wrightington 13/129 Martin House Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Later C17, windows altered in C18 or C19. Coursed sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof. Two-bay end-baffle-entry plan with continuous rear outshut, and attached granary wing. Two storey front, single-storey rear under catslide roof; at left end of front in line with chimney at left gable is a porch with carried-down (lean-to) roof, chamfered Tudor-arched outer doorway, and boarded inner door; to the right are 2 square windows on each floor, with splayed stone heads. Left gable wall has a 2-light sliding sash at ground floor, similar 3-light window above; right gable wall has an external brick chimney stack, a blocked mullioned window at 1st floor partly covered by this, a similar blocked attic window, and a 3-light chamfered mullion window towards the rear of the 1st floor; an attached lean-to washhouse partly covers this wall. Rear has a 2-light sliding sash to the outshut of the 2nd bay, a small 2-light window under the eaves in the centre, and a lean-to porch in the angle with the granary. Granary overlapping rear left corner is single-bay, 2 storeys, has steps up the rear gable to the loft door, a 3-light sliding sash in the outer side and another in the front gable, an altered window above. Interior: not inspected, but owner describes inglenook with cambered bressumer (rounded moulding), similar beams, a dog-leg staircase, and timber-framed wattle-and-daub partition walls.
Listing NGR: SD5297113885
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184383
- 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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