LAWSON'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL

LAWSON'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, 6 ORFORD CLOSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1356256
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: LAWSON'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL
Statutory Address:: LAWSON'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, 6 ORFORD CLOSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1356256
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Aug-2007
List Entry Name:: LAWSON'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL
Statutory Address 1:: LAWSON'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, 6 ORFORD CLOSE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LAWSON'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, 6 ORFORD CLOSE

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

District:: Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 60404 97210

Details

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1480/5/10 6 ORFORD CLOSE 15-NOV-1966 (North side) LAWSON'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL (Formerly listed as: BRIDGE STREET LAWSON'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL)

II House. Mid/late Cl7. English garden wall bond brick with slate roof. Baffle-entry plan with 2 rooms wide, 2 deep and 2 storeys. Twin-gabled 2-bay elevation with door to right below segmental-arched head. Raised lozenge band at first floor level. Two 3-light casement windows on each floor with segmental brick arches. Chimney stacks to right and left returns which retain original horizontally sliding sash windows. The right return has a deep stone plinth. It is partly obscured by a later lean-to addition. Interior: massive ovolo-moulded ceiling beams and bressumer beam over inglenook fireplace; all have unusual raised broach stops. A large plasterwork panel in the principal room is based on a bush bearing various fruits, acorns, etc. all in deep relief probably dating from early C17. Of a similar date is a first floor panelled partition and cupboards. Staircase with heavy turned balusters, closed string and square newels. Evidence would suggest that the structure is a rebuilding of an earlier house parts of which survive or have been reused. A contemporary garden wall with round-topped coping stones adjoins the front of the house.

Listing NGR: SJ6040497209

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 213478
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.