Slackwood Farmhouse

SLACKWOOD FARMHOUSE, NEW ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1362468
Date first listed:
02-May-1968
List Entry Name:
Slackwood Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
SLACKWOOD FARMHOUSE, NEW ROAD
Slackwood Farmhouse. House, late C17 origins, largely rebuilt 1713 by William Walling.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1362468
Date first listed:
02-May-1968
List Entry Name:
Slackwood Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
SLACKWOOD FARMHOUSE, NEW ROAD

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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:
SLACKWOOD FARMHOUSE, NEW ROAD

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:
Silverdale
National Grid Reference:
SD 47447 74569

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/10/2014


SD 47 SE
3/196

SILVERDALE,
NEW ROAD,
Slackwood Farmhouse

2.5.1968

II*


House, late C17 origins, largely rebuilt 1713 by William Walling (dendro-dated roof and stair) with C19 alterations. Rendered rubble with slate roof. Deep double-pile plan of unusually early date, with gable stacks. 2 storeys with attics. South wall altered in C19, of 2 bays with windows having wooden mullions and transoms and a central doorway with plain reveals. East gable faces road, with a ground floor window having plain reveals, a 3-light rebated and chamfered mullioned window on the 1st floor, and a similar 2-light window to the attic. Also lighting the attic is a horizontal sliding sash with glazing bars and plain reveals. West gable has a 1-light chamfered window on the ground floor, a window with plain reveals to the 1st floor and 2 2-light rebated and chamfered attic windows. High up under the eaves is a blocked ?-light chamfered window. North wall retains its rebated and chamfered mullioned windows, with one of 2 light to the left, one of 3 lights to the right and a later window with plain reveals between, with a coal hole to the cellar having chamfered sides. On the 1st floor there is a 3-light window at the right-hand side with 2 3-light windows in the centre, one above the other, lighting the stairs. Gables have copings and kneelers.


Listing NGR: SD4744774569

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181956
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Sources

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Slackwood Farm, Silverdale, Lancashire, Additional Archaeological Building Record and Watching Brief. (August 2013) Greenlane Archaeology Ltd

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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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