Higher Whitehalgh Farmhouse
HIGHER WHITEHALGH FARMHOUSE, STOCKCLOUGH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362156
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Whitehalgh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER WHITEHALGH FARMHOUSE, STOCKCLOUGH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362156
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Whitehalgh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER WHITEHALGH FARMHOUSE, STOCKCLOUGH 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:
- HIGHER WHITEHALGH FARMHOUSE, STOCKCLOUGH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tockholes
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 65255 24061
Details
SD 62 SE LIVESEY STOCKCLOUGH LANE
SD 652 240
4/40 Higher Whitehalgh Farmhouse 24-11-1966 (Formerly listed as Higher GV II Whitehalgh)
Farmhouse, dated 1616. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, roof of graded slate (front) and stone slate (rear) with a chimney on the ridge and one at the right gable, stone gable copings, Four-bay baffle-entry plan with projecting porch to 2nd bay and dairy at rear of the same bay. Two storeys; 2-storey gabled porch with a finial at the apex has a chamfered doorway offset to the left (and similar inner doorway), a small blocked opening to the right above, a 2-light 1st floor window with a hoodmould, and above this a datestone with moulded surround, lettered in relief 1616 ,right side has blocked window at ground floor, T . L G.M.R.S left side has similar window at 1st floor. Four windows each floor, all (except altered ground floor window right of porch) with hollow- chamfered mullions in deeply chamfered surrounds,the lower with hoodmoulds: left of the porch two 5-light windows with linked hoodmoulds, and two 2-light windows above; right, 5 lights at ground floor, 4 and 5 lights above. Left return wall has blocked 1st floor doorway, right return wall has blocked 1st floor window (said to have been used for preaching). At the rear the principal features of interest are a garderobe chute to the 4th bay, 3 mullioned windows to the 3rd bay, and an original but altered 2-bay single storey dairy to the 2nd bay. Interior: back-to-back fireplaces, that in the housepart with an inglenook bressummer, and beams in the same room with C16-type large chamfer and tongue stops.
Listing NGR: SD6525524061
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184713
- 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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