Fisher House Farmhouse

FISHER HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BACK LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362066
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:
Fisher House Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
FISHER HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BACK LANE
Fisher House Farmhouse, now restored. A small farmhouse, probably from early 18th century with some late 17th remains.
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Date:
1999-10-13
Reference:
IOE01/01756/21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362066
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:
Fisher House Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
FISHER HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BACK LANE

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
FISHER HOUSE FARMHOUSE, BACK LANE

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:
Charnock Richard
National Grid Reference:
SD 54734 17526

Details

SD 51 NW CHARNOCK RICHARD BACK LANE

4/16 Fisher House Farmhouse 17.4.1967 - II

Small farmhouse, probably early C18 with some late C17 remains, now ruinous. Coursed sandstone rubble with large quoins, stone slate roof with gable chimneys (one of brick, other missing). Rectangular single pile 2 bay plan, gable to road. Two storeys; vertical joints in front and rear walls, which suggest possible alternate rebuilding. Front wall has a door at left end, another right of centre, 2 windows at ground floor and 3 above, all formerly mullioned. The left and right halves differ: left is of flush masonry with chamfered plinth, and its 3 windows had splayed reveals with flush mullions; right is of watershot masonry with lower plinth, and the mullions of its windows were chamfered and recessed (2 remain). Rear wall has a boarded window and a doorway and to the 1st bay the base of walls of former dairy (stone slabs remaining).

Listing NGR: SD5473417526

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Legacy System number:
357530
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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