Higher Barn Farmhouse
HIGHER BARN FARMHOUSE, HIGH MOOR LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361886
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Barn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER BARN FARMHOUSE, HIGH MOOR LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361886
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Barn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER BARN FARMHOUSE, HIGH MOOR 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:
- HIGHER BARN FARMHOUSE, HIGH MOOR LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wrightington
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 51517 12415
Details
WRIGHTINGTON HIGH MOOR LANE (off) SD 51 SW 5/103 Higher Barn Farmhouse 22-2-1967 (formerly listed as Higher Barn Farmhouse (including dated shippons)) II
House. Late C17 with earlier remains. Sandstone rubble with stone slate roof covered by felt. East front has one bay on each side of 2-storey gabled porch. Windows are rebated and chamfered with hoods. 5-light window to left on ground floor and one of 4 lights to right. Mullions removed from other windows. The porch has a window on both floors and a blocked 2-light window under the apex. Door, with plain reveals, to left of left-hand bay. Above the door lintel is an irregular joint in the masonry. The left-hand part of the facade is blind. Chimneys behind ridge in line with doorway, and projecting with offsets from right-hand gable. Towards the right a 3rd chimney projects. It is of square plan, tall and tapering and has an industrial appearance. At the rear is a projecting wing. Interior: northern rooms on ground and 1st floors each have chamfered stone fireplaces with canted heads. Ground-floor room has ovolo-moulded spine beam. Between this room and the stair is a timber- framed wall which has the lower part of a cruck truss visible on the ground floor, with 2 blades and 2 tie-beams. The ground-floor fireplace of the middle room is built within an earlier inglenook with fireplace bressumer. On the 1st floor. the area above the fireplace is enclosed by timber-framed partitions, presumably enclosing the site of the former firehood. Set within one of these walls is a blocked C17 chamfered stone fireplace. The ground and 1st floors each have a C17 internal door.
Listing NGR: SD5151712415
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357879
- 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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