Higher House With Attached Cottage
HIGHER HOUSE WITH ATTACHED COTTAGE, NELSON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362049
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Higher House With Attached Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER HOUSE WITH ATTACHED COTTAGE, NELSON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362049
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Higher House With Attached Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER HOUSE WITH ATTACHED COTTAGE, NELSON ROAD
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 HOUSE WITH ATTACHED COTTAGE, NELSON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Burnley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Briercliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 87019 35725
Details
SD 83 NE BRIERCLIFFE WITH NELSON ROAD EXTWISTLE Haggate
1/12 Higher House with attached cottage (formerly listed as Higher House, with attached barn to N.)
17.12.1968 - II
Farmhouse, with attached cottage, now house and cottage; (former barn attached at north end now (1985) in course of conversion, not included in the item). House dated 1725 on porch; altered. Coursed sandstone rubble with some quoins, roof of stone-coloured tiles replacing stone slates. T-plan: double-depth, 2 bays, with projecting porch in centre. Two storeys, symmetrical (except for window-size); 2-storey gabled porch has central doorway with chamfered surround and segmental head undercut in a massive lintel scored to imitate voussoirs, above this a datestone lettered in relief ITW , a 2-light window at 1st floor, gable coping with kneelers 1725 and apex chimney. All windows have recessed chamfered mullions and hoodmoulds, and all have 4 lights except that at ground floor left which has 6 lights (and hoodmould run into porch). Chimneys at both original gables; gable coping with kneelers at right gable. Single-bay cottage to left, under continued roof of stone slates, has C20 gabled porch incorporating doorway from Extwistle Hall (q.v.) a 4-light window to the left and two 2-light windows above, all like the others but without hoodmoulds; moulded gutter brackets; ridge chimney. Interiors altered. Reference: RCHM esp. p.135.
Listing NGR: SD8701935725
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184018
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911), 135
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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