Birks Farmhouse and Barns Adjoining
BIRKS FARMHOUSE AND BARNS ADJOINING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362575
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Birks Farmhouse and Barns Adjoining
- Statutory Address:
- BIRKS FARMHOUSE AND BARNS ADJOINING
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362575
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Birks Farmhouse and Barns Adjoining
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRKS FARMHOUSE AND BARNS ADJOINING
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:
- BIRKS FARMHOUSE AND BARNS ADJOINING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wray-with-Botton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 63134 66798
Details
SD 66 NW WRAY-WITH-BOTTON
2/117 Birks Farmhouse and barns adjoining 4-10-1967 - II
House, probaby 1667 with earlier remains and C19th alterations, with barns probably C18th. Sandstone rubble with roofs of stone slate and slate. 2 storeys, with 3-storey gabled porch. To the right of the porch is a 2-light window with plain stone surround, flat-faced mullion, and drip course over. On the 1st floor is a 3-light rebated and chamfered mullioned window. A door to the left of the ground-floor window has plain reveals. To the left of the porch is a block which appears to be C19th with C17th remains. Large foundation stones projecting beyond it to the left suggest a series of rebuildings on the site. It has flush chamfered mullioned windows and flat-faced hood moulds. On the ground floor is one of 3 lights, with 2 of 2 lights above. To the right is a re-set cyma-moulded door surround with battlemented lintel inscribed: '1680 WTE'. The porch is of one bay and has 1st and 2nd floor windows of 2 lights, rebated and chamfered with mullions and with cyma-moulded hoods treated as open pediments. Above the ground floor is a drip course. The door, now blocked and containing a window, has a moulded surround and a decorated lintel inscribed: '1667 IT'. The porch gable has a cyma-moulded coping with kneelers. Its right-hand return wall has a 3-light rebated and chamfered 1st floor window with hood. Above is an oval opening with cable-moulded stone surround. The house has gable chimneys. Adjoining to the right are farm buildings, their left-hand part now converted to form part of the house. A wide entrance has a chamfered surround with segmental arch and is now qlazed and contains a door. Further right is a door with chamfered surround, with an opening with plain reveals to its left. Further right is a 2-light chamfered mullioned window with one light blocked. On the 1st floor is a one-light chamfered window, with a shuttered opening to the right. Projecting forwards at right angles to the right is a barn whose front wall has breathers. To the right is a lean-to whose front wall has a wide entrance with plain reveals.
Listing NGR: SD6313466798
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 182653
- 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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