High Gale Farmhouse

HIGH GALE FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362518
Date first listed:
04-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
High Gale Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
HIGH GALE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362518
Date first listed:
04-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
High Gale Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
HIGH GALE FARMHOUSE

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:
HIGH GALE FARMHOUSE

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:
Burrow-with-Burrow
National Grid Reference:
SD 63070 76678

Details

BURROW-WITH-BURROW SD 67 NW 2/35 High Gale. Farmhouse

II

House, 1678. Slobbered rubble with slate roof. 2 storeys with,attics. Windows mainly 6-pane sashes with plain reveals. Main, possibly earliest, part of house of 3 bays; having paired sashed windows on the ground floor at the right. Part of a drip course remains over the ground floor, rising over a central doorway with moulded surround and battlemented lintel inscribed: 'GME 1678'. Towards the right are 2 bays, with a small window with plain reveals further right on the 1st floor. Chimneys on gables and to right of 3rd bay. In the left-hand gable are 3 2-light mullioned windows, one lighting the attic. Inside, the room entered from the front door has 2 chamfered and stopped axial main joists resting on a cruck blade re-used as a firehood bressumer. The left-hand room has a fireplace opening with splayed rubble sides and rough stone arch.

Listing NGR: SD6307076678

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
182329
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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