Sheephouse Farmhouse and Attached Cottages and Stone Barn
SHEEPHOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COTTAGES AND STONE BARN, SMITHILLS DEAN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388278
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Sheephouse Farmhouse and Attached Cottages and Stone Barn
- Statutory Address:
- SHEEPHOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COTTAGES AND STONE BARN, SMITHILLS DEAN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388278
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Sheephouse Farmhouse and Attached Cottages and Stone Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEEPHOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COTTAGES AND STONE BARN, SMITHILLS DEAN ROAD
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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:
- SHEEPHOUSE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COTTAGES AND STONE BARN, SMITHILLS DEAN 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 69095 12048
Details
BOLTON
SD61SE SMITHILLS DEAN ROAD 797-1/1/216 (West side (off)) 26/04/74 Sheephouse Farmhouse and attached cottages and stone barn (Formerly Listed as: SMITHHILLS DEAN ROAD Sheep House Farmhouse. Stone Barn attached to Sheep House Farmhouse.)
GV II
Farmhouse with attached cottages and barn. The house probably originally late C17 or early C18, extended to rear early C19. Cottages probably late C18, and barn dated 1862, extended by the addition of shippons in 1901. Coursed and squared stone with stone flagged and slate roofs. EXTERIOR AND PLAN: earliest building, the main part of the house, faces south: 2 storeys, 2-window range with doorway to right, and two 3-light mullioned windows on each floor. Axial stack. Rear wing of farmhouse probably added early C19. Cottages adjoin the farmhouse to the rear (and are wrapped by the rear extensions of the farmhouse). Each a single unit, double pile plan, with doorway to left, and single window on each floor, all with plain stone lintels. Central stack. Barn is rock-faced rubble, a double ridged building, with wide segmentally arched opposed entrances to threshing floor, and datestone above the northern doorway. INTERNAL: structure consists of paired kingpost trusses supported by central cast-iron columns. The farm formed part of the Ainsworth's Smithills hall estate.
Listing NGR: SD6909512048
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476278
- 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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