Wood Fold Farmhouse
WOOD FOLD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361658
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Wood Fold Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WOOD FOLD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361658
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Wood Fold Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOD FOLD FARMHOUSE
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:
- WOOD FOLD FARMHOUSE
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 56817 42168
Details
SD 54 SE
2/80
GOOSNARGH
WHITECHAPEL
Wood Fold Farmhouse
11.11.1966
II
Farmhouse, dated 1696 on lintel. Sandstone rubble brought to courses, with quoins, slate roof with 2 brick chimneys. Three-bay baffle-entry plan, with rear outshut added to 3rd bay. Two storeys; continuous hollow-moulded dripcourse stepped over lintel of door; in line with ridge chimney at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays a moulded doorway with shaped lintel lettered in relief B T E 1696, 3 windows at ground floor and 4 above, all altered but in original horizontal rectangular openings, and with one chamfered mullion remaining in each at ground floor and the 1st above. Rear: middle bay has a 4-light housepart window mostly blocked but with geometrical leaded glazing (like that of Ashes Farmhouse, q.v.) exposed in the 4th light, a blocked 2-light stairlight to the right, and a 2-light window at 1st floor.
Interior: housepart has inglenook with ovolo-moulded bressummer, 2 similarly moulded beams (boxed); kitchen has 2 chamfered beams; some timber-framed and wattle and daub partitions.
Listing NGR: SD5681742168
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185927
- 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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