LOWE'S FARMHOUSE

LOWE'S FARMHOUSE, COBB'S BROW LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196621
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: LOWE'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: LOWE'S FARMHOUSE, COBB'S BROW LANE

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Date:: 2005-04-03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1196621
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: LOWE'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LOWE'S FARMHOUSE, COBB'S BROW 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LOWE'S FARMHOUSE, COBB'S BROW LANE

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: West Lancashire (District Authority)
Parish:: Newburgh
National Grid Reference:: SD 47835 09274

Details

NEWBURGH

SD40NE COBB'S BROW LANE 663-1/5/108 (West side) Lowe's Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Early to mid C18; altered. Coursed sandstone rubble now rendered, composition tile roof. Double-depth plan formed by 2-unit front range with contemporary rear wings coupled and gabled. Three storeys, 3 windows, symmetrical, with a chamfered plinth, a central doorway with Gibbs surround, vertical rectangular windows at ground floor and 1st floor now with C20 top-hung casements (replacing former mullion-and-transom cross-windows) and low 3-pane windows at 2nd floor (formerly mullioned). Hipped roof with chimneys on rear ridges. Rear: small C20 porch to centre, numerous vertical-rectangular windows with altered glazing, coupled gables. INTERIOR: front door opening directly into left room; chamfered beams at ground floor with cyma stops; roughly-hewn beams at 1st floor (formerly boxed) and some inserted partitions in front range; dog-legged open-string staircase with scrolled brackets, turned balusters (formerly 2 per tread but now only one), rectangular newels composed of clustered turned balusters, and broad moulded handrail; very unusual coupled upper-cruck roof trusses on main axis of front range.

Listing NGR: SD4783509274

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Legacy System number:: 386346
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.