Bents Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
BENTS FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN
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Overview
- 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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- 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.
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:
- 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
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213395
- 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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