Bents Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn

BENTS FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1366279
Date first listed:
23-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:
Bents Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
Statutory Address:
BENTS FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1366279
Date first listed:
23-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:
Bents Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
Statutory Address 1:
BENTS FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN

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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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

Location

Statutory Address:
BENTS FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN

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

District:
Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 92703 16218

Details

SD 91 NW LITTLEBOROUGH STUBLEY

1/59 Bents Farmhouse and adjoining - barn

- II LaithE-house. Early C19 but probably earlier origin. Hammer-dressed watershot stone with graduated stone slate roof. Double-depth plan with 2 bays, 2 storeys and barn attached to right. Central door and porch have obtuse-angled lintels and heavily chamfered surrounds. The porch has a coped gable and a date of 1727 cut into a jamb stone. 5-light chamfered mullion and transom window to left, 4-light mullion window to right and two 3- light first floor windows. All have hoodmoulds. Central blind arched light at first floor level. Quoins, coped gables with kneelers and gable and ridge chimney stacks. The rear has similar 3 and 4-light windows and doors (some blocked) with square-cut surrounds. The barn, partly obscured by a timber lean-to addition, has opposed segmental-arched cart entries with small arched lintel lights above, dressed pitching holes to either side and slit ventilators. Rendered right gable. Queen-post roof trusses. A parallel single-storey range adjoins at the rear and is detailed similarly.

Listing NGR: SD9270316218

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
213395
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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