SABDEN HOUSE

SABDEN HOUSE, STUBBINS LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393829
Date first listed:: 02-Jun-2004
List Entry Name:: SABDEN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SABDEN HOUSE, STUBBINS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393829
Date first listed:: 02-Jun-2004
List Entry Name:: SABDEN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SABDEN HOUSE, STUBBINS LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SABDEN HOUSE, STUBBINS LANE

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Ribble Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Sabden
National Grid Reference:: SD 78187 37714

Reasons for Designation

A detached villa of 1847, built as a parsonage house to the Neo-Romanesque church of St Nicholas nearby, with which it groups well. The house reflects some of that Neo- Romanesque character and retains good interior detail, despite refurbishment and extension in the late C20.

Details

1025/0/10008

SABDEN, STUBBINS LANE, Near Wesley Street/ Clitheroe Road, Sabden House

02-JUN-04

GV II Villa, formerly vicarage, now private dwelling. 1847, with late C20 alterations and additions. Regularly coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings, stone chimney stacks, and a slate roof covering to hipped roofs enclosing now covered central light well. . PLAN: L-shaped plan, with extended and raised service wing extending to the north. EXTERIOR: Entrance (west) front of 2 storeys, 3 bays, with single storeyed flat-roofed entrance porch to centre. South wall with 6-panel door set within heavily moulded semi-circular arch-headed doorway with hoodmould. Shallow arcading to eaves, and pilastered corners , with single light window with semi-circular arched head. Either side of the porch are tall 2-light mullioned windows, with semi-circular arch-headed lights. 2-light first floor windows have 4 over 4 pane sash frames. South elevation to garden with 2 canted bay windows below mullioned 2-light first floor windows. Rear elevation extended by 2 bays with C20 window joinery. C20 pitched roofed conservatory added to north elevation, below level of large stair window. INTERIOR: Amended plan form with open plan kitchen area formed from former service wing. House part little altered , with panelled doors, moulded architraves and skirtings, and moulded plaster cornices. Panelled semi-circular hall arch gives access to principal stair with slender turned balusters, and scrolled and ramped handrail. Ground floor reception rooms with good quality hearths, that to the main reception room with a bolection moulding and carved ornamentation, and possibly a replacement. HISTORY: Sabden House is believed to have been built in 1847 on land donated by Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie, who also funded its construction as the parsonage house for the nearby St Nicholas' Church. The house was extended in the 1970s and refurbished in 1991. Forms a group with the Church of St Nicholas. (q.v.)

Sabden House is of special architectural interest as a well-preserved detached villa of 1847 with good interior detailing, which forms part of a carefully designed ensemble of church and parsonage in the hamlet of Heyhouses.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 501947
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.