Higher Antley Cottage Higher Antley Hall

HIGHER ANTLEY COTTAGE, PARK CRESCENT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362017
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:
Higher Antley Cottage Higher Antley Hall
Statutory Address:
HIGHER ANTLEY COTTAGE, PARK CRESCENT
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362017
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:
Higher Antley Cottage Higher Antley Hall
Statutory Address 1:
HIGHER ANTLEY COTTAGE, PARK CRESCENT
Statutory Address 2:
HIGHER ANTLEY COTTAGE, WILLOWS LANE
Statutory Address 3:
HIGHER ANTLEY HALL, PARK CRESCENT
Statutory Address 4:
HIGHER ANTLEY HALL, WILLOWS 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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HIGHER ANTLEY COTTAGE, PARK CRESCENT
Statutory Address:
HIGHER ANTLEY COTTAGE, WILLOWS LANE
Statutory Address:
HIGHER ANTLEY HALL, PARK CRESCENT
Statutory Address:
HIGHER ANTLEY HALL, WILLOWS LANE

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Hyndburn (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 75456 27683

Details

ACCRINGTON PARK CRESCENT SD 72 NE 5/26 Higher Antley Hall and

- Higher Antley Cottage - II

Farmhouse, early C17, renovated and altered in 1927 to make 2 dwellings. Coursed rubble with quoins, now pebble-dashed; stone slate roof with 2 ridge chimney stacks, stone gable copings and kneelers (ball finials not original). Typical 3-bay baffle-entry 2-storey house with gabled 2-storey porch at junction of 1st and 2nd bays, short 2-storey outshut to rear of 3rd bay. Porch has Tudor-arched doorway with deep lintel enclosed by hoodmould, overhanging upper floor with square recess for datestone (altered) and windows in front and sides; including these, facade has 8 renovated windows in original openings with restored hoodmoulds (one at ground floor, 7 above), and 2 new windows which imitate these. Right return wall has 2 original 2-light double-chamfered stone mullion windows, and rear has one small round-headed window at 1st floor. Interior: original large chimney stack with stone-arched fireplaces back-to-back; otherwise altered. (Ainsworth Homesteads pp.11-13)

Listing NGR: SD7545627683

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
183823
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ainsworth, R, The Old Homesteads of Accrington and District, (1928), 11-13

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 Higher Antley Cottage Higher Antley Hall

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