Maudsley Fold

MAUDSLEY FOLD, ROACH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1361390
Date first listed:
27-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
Maudsley Fold
Statutory Address:
MAUDSLEY FOLD, ROACH ROAD
Maudsley Fold Farmhouse in Samlesbury, now house. From the early 17th century or possibly earlier, and altered in 1900.
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Date:
2001-08-26
Reference:
IOE01/02858/31
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1361390
Date first listed:
27-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
Maudsley Fold
Statutory Address 1:
MAUDSLEY FOLD, ROACH ROAD

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
MAUDSLEY FOLD, ROACH ROAD

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
South Ribble (District Authority)
Parish:
Samlesbury
National Grid Reference:
SD 60561 27794

Details

SD 62NW SAMLESBURY ROACH ROAD

6/101 Maudsley Fold -

- II

Farmhouse, early C17 or earlier, altered in 1900, now house. Internal cruck frame, walls of stone and brick (all painted white except west gable), graded slate roof, with one chimney on the ridge and another at the right gable. Four bay linear plan. Gable to road. One and a half storeys; front (north) wall rebuilt in brick. Left gable has 2-light attic window, right gable of coursed red sandstone with large quoins has modern external chimney with attic window. Rear has gabled dormers to 2nd and 3rd bays, 4 small casements at ground floor and a very small oblong window between the 3rd and 4th bays. Interior: full cruck trusses between 2nd and 3rd, and between 3rd and 4th bays (the latter with a tie beam and a collar severed to make a doorway) with some wind braces. Partition of 1st and 2nd bays is a thick battered stone wall, and there is a secondary upper truss a short distance from its inner side. History: coin hoard found in chimney during renovations in 1900 contained coins dating from Edward VI to Charles I, the latest being 1645. (R. Eaton History of Samlesbury 1936).

Listing NGR: SD6056127794

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
358006
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Eaton, R, History of Samlesbury, (1936)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Maudsley Fold

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