Sharples Hall Farmhouse
SHARPLES HALL FARMHOUSE, BLACKBURN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387927
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Sharples Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SHARPLES HALL FARMHOUSE, BLACKBURN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387927
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Sharples Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHARPLES HALL FARMHOUSE, BLACKBURN ROAD
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:
- SHARPLES HALL FARMHOUSE, BLACKBURN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 71687 12397
Details
BOLTON
SD71SW BLACKBURN ROAD 797-1/2/40 (East side) 26/04/74 Sharples Hall Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse, now a house. Dated 1843. Well coursed and squared tooled stone with graded slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 4-window range with main entrance to left of centre, and an additional doorway to the right, both in chamfered architraves. Four 2-light mullioned windows to first floor, and mullioned and transomed windows of 2 and 3 lights below. Coped gable to right, corbelled gable end stack to left, and axial stack between the 2 right-hand units. Stacks have twist and lozenge decoration. Rear wing to north, with segmental oriel window sprung from paired corbels to ground floor, and 2-light mullioned window above. Ornate coped gable with exaggerated kneelers. In the angle of the wing, a lean-to roof sweeps down over a formerly open verandah now glassed in, and a single bay with wide arched window on each floor adjacent to the wing, the upper window in a gabled dormer. Doorway to verandah in return wall, with coped gable with stag head in high relief over the entrance. In the main south gable of the house, datestone with 'A.B.C. archt.' INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD7168712397
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475921
- 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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