Barn and Shippon on East Side of Road, Opposite Roscoe Lowe Farmhouse
BARN AND SHIPPON ON EAST SIDE OF ROAD, OPPOSITE ROSCOE LOWE FARMHOUSE, ROSCOE LOWE BROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362111
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Shippon on East Side of Road, Opposite Roscoe Lowe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND SHIPPON ON EAST SIDE OF ROAD, OPPOSITE ROSCOE LOWE FARMHOUSE, ROSCOE LOWE BROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362111
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Apr-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Shippon on East Side of Road, Opposite Roscoe Lowe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AND SHIPPON ON EAST SIDE OF ROAD, OPPOSITE ROSCOE LOWE FARMHOUSE, ROSCOE LOWE BROW
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:
- BARN AND SHIPPON ON EAST SIDE OF ROAD, OPPOSITE ROSCOE LOWE FARMHOUSE, ROSCOE LOWE BROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Anderton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 61810 13366
Details
ANDERTON ROSCOE LOWE BROW SD 61 SW 14/9 17.4.67 Barn and shippon on east side of road, opposite Roscoe Lowe Farmhouse GV II
Barn, dated 1588 below eaves on north side, altered, with attached shippon or stable dated 1683 at 1st floor of west side. Squared sandstone with quoins, slate roofs with some stone slate. Barn is gable to road, shippon attached at right angles to far end of south side. Six-bay has various slit breathers at upper level of north side, and in west gable (which has been rebuilt following collapse); opposed wagon doorways to 3rd bay (from the west end), that on the south side flanked by later lean-to additions; to the right of the wagon door to the north side a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway, now blocked, immediately above the lintel a triple-recessed small square opening, and under the eaves at the east end a rectangular datestone lettered in relief ANO. Visible in the south wall to the right of the DNI 1588 wagon entrance, now in the shippon, is another blocked doorway, with a humped lintel. Interior: inner side of west jamb of north wagon entrance has a jambstone crudely incised with a "Celtic head"; at west end 3 original collar trusses with curved windbracing to overlapped purlins. Attached shippon of 2 bays (the 2nd set back), 1½ storeys, has a doorway to the 1st bay, at ground floor of 2nd bay an exceptionally large rectangular lintel (backed internally by a cambered beam) with a small window beneath it, and above this a square opening to the loft, a datestone to the right of this lettered in relief F (= Foster, Robert and Margaret). Said to R M 1683 have been used as workshop by Samuel Oldknow of Roscoe Lowe Farmhouse (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD6181013366
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184260
- 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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