Lower Bencock Farmhouse

LOWER BENCOCK FARMHOUSE, CARR LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362158
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Lower Bencock Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
LOWER BENCOCK FARMHOUSE, CARR LANE
Lower Bencock Farmhouse in Pleasington. A farmhouse from the 18th century. Photographed in February 2025.
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Date:
2003-04-14
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362158
Date first listed:
27-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Lower Bencock Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
LOWER BENCOCK FARMHOUSE, CARR 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LOWER BENCOCK FARMHOUSE, CARR LANE

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

District:
Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Pleasington
National Grid Reference:
SD 65291 29017

Details

SD 62 NE PLEASINGTON CARR LANE

SD 653 290

2/48 Lower Bencock Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse, C18. Watershot sandstone blocks with quoins, whitewashed, tiled roof with brick chimney at left gable and later chimney in front of ridge at right end. Double pile 2-bay plan. Two storeys; doorway offset left of centre with plain jambs and slightly projecting lintel, left of this on each floor one horizontal rectangular casement window with glazing bars, right of it 3 smaller but similar windows (possibly loomshop lights) and a vertical rectangular window above, also with glazing bars. Entrance now in single-storey porch at left end. Right return wall has one small window; rear has 3 ground floor windows. Interior: ground floor back room extends whole length of house, and is separated by a timber-framed partition wall.

Listing NGR: SD6529129017

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
184721
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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