Cliff Farmhouse
CLIFF FARMHOUSE, HIGHER HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362133
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Cliff Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CLIFF FARMHOUSE, HIGHER HOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362133
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Cliff Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLIFF FARMHOUSE, HIGHER HOUSE LANE
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:
- CLIFF FARMHOUSE, HIGHER HOUSE LANE
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 61213 18284
Details
HEAPEY HIGHER HOUSE LANE SD 61 NW 10/117 Cliff Farmhouse 17.4.67 - II
Farmhouse, now house. Dated 1696 on lintel; altered. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins on plinth of large blocks, stone-coloured tiled roof with brick chimney at left gable. Two-and-a-half bay end-baffle-entry plan with central lateral staircase, lean-to addition at left end, single-storey rear wing. Two storeys and attic; doorway at left end has slightly arched lintel with panelled raised lettering M ; a 4-light window to the TA . RM 16 . 96 1st bay and a 3-light window to the 2nd, one mullion remaining in the first of these but otherwise altered as casements, and between these at mid-level a round-headed stairlight, all these openings with hoodmoulds, that over the door run out over the housepart window; at 1st floor, a round-headed light over the door, and a 3-and a 2-light window altered as casements. Left gable has 2 small attic windows. Right gable wall has 2 round-headed single-light windows on each floor and a 2-light attic window; rear has 2 formerly-mullioned 2-light windows at ground floor, 2 similar above and a square and a round-headed single light window, all with chamfered surrounds. Interior: inglenook fireplace has stone heck with moulded cap, peephole, chamfered bressummer supporting 2 chamfered beams, all these with tongue stops; post-and-rail timber framed partitions to the staircase bay; 2nd bay formerly unequally partitioned but partition removed; chamfered beams at 1st floor; roof of 2 collar trusses with angle struts, 2 pairs of purlins. Good example of unusual and very localised type on this plan: others are Morris Farmhouse and Warth Farmhouse in this parish and Marsh Farmhouse Brindle CP (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD6121318284
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184371
- 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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