LONGLEY HALL AND GARDEN WALL TO FRONT

LONGLEY HALL AND GARDEN WALL TO FRONT, BILSBORROW LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1361631
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: LONGLEY HALL AND GARDEN WALL TO FRONT
Statutory Address:: LONGLEY HALL AND GARDEN WALL TO FRONT, BILSBORROW LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1361631
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: LONGLEY HALL AND GARDEN WALL TO FRONT
Statutory Address 1:: LONGLEY HALL AND GARDEN WALL TO FRONT, BILSBORROW LANE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: LONGLEY HALL AND GARDEN WALL TO FRONT, BILSBORROW 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 54338 39274

Details

SD 53 NW GOOSNARGH BILSBORROW LANE (off)

4/35 Longley Hall and garden wall to front

II

Farmhouse, probably mid-C18, altered, but incorporating earlier fabric, including datestone of 1668. Brick, with sandstone plinth and some quoins to rear and west gable, slate roof with 2 brick chimneys. Double-depth 2-bay plan, with lean-to addition to rear. Two storeys and garrets; south front to garden has 2-course 1st floor band, gabled single-storey porch offset to the right, three 4-pane sashes at ground floor and 4 above, all with slightly segmental brick heads; left gable wall has one window on each of 3 floors and quoins up to half height of rear corner; right gable wall has 4 irregularly disposed windows on 4 levels; rear has single-storey lean-to with stone quoins, a narrow stairlight above, a large window at ground floor and a segmental-headed 2-light casement at 1st floor. Interior: large beams throughout, mostly chamfered and some with cyma stops, one (in kitchen, ground floor left) with roll moulding on the soffit and one side but roughly chamfered on the other side (possibly a re-used hearth bressummer); parlour door with geometrical bolection-moulded panelling, H-hinges, and decorated iron bolt all on the inner side; full-height doglegged staircase with closed string, turned balusters, moulded handrail, square newels; timber-framed partitions at 1st floor; lintel of former backdoor (now under lean-to) has oval panel lettered in relief ER . History original hall probably built by William Latewis (b.1544), recusant who forfeited estate 1607; owned by Rigby family in C17 (Edward Rigby, Sergeant-at-Law, died c.1682); in mid-C18 owned by James Parkinson of Preston, apothecary. House probably rebuilt by one of the Parkinsons, using fabric of earlier building. Garden wall to south, of handmade brick with ridged sandstone coping of C17 type, L-shaped, enclosing east and south sides of garden. Reference: Fishwick Goosnargh pp 181-4. (Also known as Latus Hall).

Listing NGR: SD5433839274

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Legacy System number:: 185882
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Fishwick, , Goosnargh, (1871), 181-4

Legal

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