Wood House Farmhouse

WOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE, CUERDALE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1361893
Date first listed:
27-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
Wood House Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
WOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE, CUERDALE LANE
Wood House Farmhouse in the Cuerdale Parish of South Ribble. A farmhouse that is probably from the early 18th century.
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Date:
2000-05-13
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1361893
Date first listed:
27-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
Wood House Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
WOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE, CUERDALE 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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WOOD HOUSE FARMHOUSE, CUERDALE LANE

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
South Ribble (District Authority)
Parish:
Cuerdale
National Grid Reference:
SD 57727 28802

Details

SD 52NE CUERDALE CUERDALE LANE 5/4 Wood House Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse, probably early C18, with C19 addition to rear (not included in the item). Rendered brick with stone plinth and stone dressings, slate roof. Double-pile 2-bay plan. 2 storeys, symmetrical, with gable chimney stacks, that on the right external and buttress-shaped. Ground floor has 3 sashed windows, the left one wider, 1st floor centre window blocked, others top-hung casements, all windows have glazing bars and stone sills. Interior: housepart has stone fireplace with shouldered jambs and slightly arched head, chimney breast has pair of large projecting stone brackets at ceiling level, supporting a bressummer beam ovolo-moulded at the ends but with plain centre section jointed in at the brackets; ovolo moulded bridging beams in housepart and in kitchen; one ground floor door and two 1st floor doors have shouldered panels; dog-leg staircase with C17-type splat balusters. Roof, raised in C19, includes earlier central truss and purlins. Original position of entrance not known.

Listing NGR: SD5772728802

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
357910
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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