Lower House Fold Farmhouse With Adjoining Barn at SD 616 204

LOWER HOUSE FOLD FARMHOUSE WITH ADJOINING BARN AT SD 616 204

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362131
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Lower House Fold Farmhouse With Adjoining Barn at SD 616 204
Statutory Address:
LOWER HOUSE FOLD FARMHOUSE WITH ADJOINING BARN AT SD 616 204
Lower House Fold Farmhouse with adjoining barn in Heapey. A former farmhouse that was dated 1692 on worn datestone.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362131
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
Lower House Fold Farmhouse With Adjoining Barn at SD 616 204
Statutory Address 1:
LOWER HOUSE FOLD FARMHOUSE WITH ADJOINING BARN AT SD 616 204

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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:
LOWER HOUSE FOLD FARMHOUSE WITH ADJOINING BARN AT SD 616 204

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:
Heapey
National Grid Reference:
SD 61697 20422

Details

HEAPEY SD 62 SW 6/109B Lower House Fold Farmhouse with adjoining barn at with adjoining barn at SD 616 204 - II

Farmhouse, formerly dated 1692 on worn datestone, altered; with attached barn containing a cruck truss which is probably medieval. House of coursed squared sandstone with quoins, slate roof with brick gable chimneys. Two-bay end-baffle-entry plan with added rear outshut. Two storeys; doorway at right hand end, with hoodmould over rectangular lintel; above and to the left a worn datestone (legible when first listed, with date 1692); 2 windows at ground floor, both with hoodmoulds and both formerly of 4 recessed lights with mullions but now 2-light casements; 2 similarly altered 2-light windows at 1st floor, a round-headed blocked window between these and an inserted window above the door. Left gable wall has a 2-light window with chamfered mullion at ground floor, another above with a hoodmould, and a round-headed blocked attic light also with a hoodmould; outshut has inter alia a chamfered flush mullion 2-light window at 1st floor of this side, and a door in the rear. Interior: inglenook fireplace with chamfered bressummer; 2 stop-chamfered beams supported on the bressummer. Barn attached at west end, of coursed rubble, undergoing conversion as dwelling at time of survey (1985) contains a full cruck truss of large scantling, the steeply-cambered tie-beam and finely-carpentered arch braces to this forming a continuous rounded arch, with chamfered soffit: the purpose of this structure is not known, but it bears a crude resemblance to a truss in the hall of the former Radcliffe Tower, illustrated in Whitaker's History of Whalley p.291. History: not known, but perhaps associated with Stanlaw Abbey, which acquired lands in Heapey, Withnell and Wheelton in early C13, together with millpool and millstream: item is close to site of mill on Brinscall Brook, and to area known as Monks Hill, Wheelton CP. See VCH VI pp.47-50.

Listing NGR: SD6160020400

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
184362
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911), 47-50
Whitaker, T D, A History of the Original Parish of Whalley, (1876), 291

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Lower House Fold Farmhouse With Adjoining Barn at SD 616 204

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