PEEL FOLD FARMHOUSE

PEEL FOLD FARMHOUSE, FOLD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280403
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1965
List Entry Name:: PEEL FOLD FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: PEEL FOLD FARMHOUSE, FOLD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280403
Date first listed:: 15-Nov-1965
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:: PEEL FOLD FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PEEL FOLD FARMHOUSE, FOLD ROAD

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:: PEEL FOLD FARMHOUSE, FOLD ROAD

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Hyndburn (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 71721 28018

Details

OSWALDTWISTLE FOLD ROAD SD 72 NW 4/86 Peel Fold Farmhouse 15.11.1965 (formerly listed as Peel Fold under - II Stanhill Road)

Farmhouse, Cl7, now house (part restored, part ruinous). Sandstone rubble in graduated courses, with quoins, stone slate roof now on 2 slightly different levels. Three-bay baffle-entry plan with 3rd bay built as crosswing, and stair turret to rear of 2nd bay. Two storeys; 1st bay restored with mullion window on each floor, moulded doorcase close to junction of 2nd bay; 2nd bay has a 5-light stone mullion window with hoodmould. 2- and 3-light mullion windows at 1st floor; gable of wing (ruinous) projects slightly, has one double-chamfered stone mullion window on each floor, and a small attic light with rounded head and hollow spandrels. Rear has 6 stone mullion windows (one ex situ) and a small round-headed stairlight. Interior: cyma stop-chamfered beams; stone spiral staircase; smoke hood at junction of 1st and 2nd bays (fireplace removed). History: home of Robert ("Parsley") Peel, who is said to have conducted early calico printing experiments here. Birthplace of Sir Robert Peel. (Ainsworth Homesteads p. 284; Abram Blackburn pp.212-224)

Listing NGR: SD7172128018

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Sources

Books and journals
Abram, W A, History of Blackburn, (1877), 212-224
Ainsworth, R, The Old Homesteads of Accrington and District, (1928), 284

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.