Moor Side House
Moorside House, Burnley Road, Altham, BB5 5TZ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362040
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Moor Side House
- Statutory Address:
- Moorside House, Burnley Road, Altham, BB5 5TZ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362040
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Moor Side House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Moorside House, Burnley Road, Altham, BB5 5TZ
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:
- Moorside House, Burnley Road, Altham, BB5 5TZ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Hyndburn (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Altham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 76022 31498
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 August 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
SD 73 SE
3/43
ALTHAM
BURNLEY ROAD
Moorside House
(Formerly listed as Moor Side House)
II
House, c.1830. Scored stucco with quoins (painted white), moulded gutter cornice, stone slate roof with gable chimneys and copings. Double pile three-bay plan, with service wing to rear of first bay. Two storeys, symmetrical, in Perpendicular Gothic style: Tudor-arched doorway with hoodmould, large four-light stone mullion windows also with hoodmoulds. Right return wall has one similar three-light window on each floor, rear has large Tudor-arched stairlight with glazing bars (radiating in the head), and some sashed windows also with glazing bars.
Interior: stone staircase with iron twist balusters; moulded plaster ceiling frieze and alcove in drawing roam; original door furnishings, (panels of one door decorated with paintings of flowers possibly by Lydia Becker).
History: built by Hannibal Leigh Becker, chemical manufacturer; early home of Lydia Becker, pioneer of Women's Suffrage Movement botanist and painter.
Listing NGR: SD7602231498
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183846
- 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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