Fairhurst Hall
FAIRHURST HALL, COMMON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365840
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fairhurst Hall
- Statutory Address:
- FAIRHURST HALL, COMMON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365840
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Fairhurst Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIRHURST HALL, COMMON 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:
- FAIRHURST HALL, COMMON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hilldale
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 49031 11687
Details
WRIGHTINGTON COMMON LANE (off) SD 41 SE 4/96 Fairhurst Hall - GV II
House. Mid C18 with C16 remains. Altered 1948 when mid C19 extensions were demolished. Brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings and hipped slate roof. 2 storeys. Half-H plan. South front has plinth, chamfered quoins, cornice partly hidden by timber gutters, and sashed windows with glazing bars and rusticated lintels. Wings each of 2 bays. Recessed centre of 3 bays. Central doorway has rusticated surround. Chimneys to left and right. At the rear of the right-hand wing is a C17 projecting stone stack with offsets. Interior: ground and 1st floors contain little of architectural interest. The roof trusses over the centre and right-hand wings appear to be C18 and have tie-beams and raking struts. The purlins are windbraced. Some of the timber is re-used from a timber-framed building. The 4-bay roof over the left-hand (west) wing shows evidence for a timber frame encased within the present building. The trusses have tie-beams and raking struts. Curved braces to principal posts are visible, as is part of the wattle and daub infill below the eastern wallplate. The northern truss is numbered 'III' and the one to its south 'IIII', implying that 2 trusses have been removed, probably when the C17 stack was inserted and the gable wall rebuilt in stone.
Listing NGR: SD4903111687
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357872
- 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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