Rigby House Farmhouse
RIGBY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, THE COMMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362062
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Rigby House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- RIGBY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, THE COMMON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362062
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Rigby House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RIGBY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, THE COMMON
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:
- RIGBY HOUSE FARMHOUSE, THE COMMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Adlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 59032 12472
Details
SD 51 SE ADLINGTON THE COMMON
8/4 Rigby House Farmhouse 13.7.1966 - II
Farmhouse, early Cl7, now house. Brick on stone plinth, with stone dressings, slate roof with one ridge chimney stack and one external chimney at right end. Two storeys. Three-bay baffle-entry plan; projecting crosswings and stair turret all gabled. Stair turret flush with gable of right wing. All windows in front have stone mullions, splayed reveals, and hoodmoulds: left gable, 3 lights at ground floor, 4 lights above; centre, a single light above door, and 3 lights on each floor to the right; stair turret has one of 2-lights, right wing has one 5-light ground floor window and a doorway (with glazed porch), with a 2- and a 4-light window above. Side walls have some similar windows including one of 5 lights at 1st floor of left side. At rear the wing to 3rd bay projects and has a single storey gabled porch in the angle; here all windows are altered. Interior: ¼ round moulded beams, inglenook with bressumer; spiral newel staircase.
Listing NGR: SD5903212472
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357518
- 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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