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Latitude: 53.7906 / 53°47'26"N
Longitude: -2.2926 / 2°17'33"W
OS Eastings: 380823
OS Northings: 432738
OS Grid: SD808327
Mapcode National: GBR DSFL.GX
Mapcode Global: WH96R.RZHF
Plus Code: 9C5VQPR4+6X
Entry Name: 274-298, Lowerhouse Lane
Listing Date: 29 September 1977
Last Amended: 19 November 1997
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1244879
English Heritage Legacy ID: 467102
Location: Burnley, Lancashire, BB12
County: Lancashire
Electoral Ward/Division: Rosegrove with Lowerhouse
Built-Up Area: Burnley
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Burnley West All Saints St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
BURNLEY
SD8032NE LOWERHOUSE LANE, Lowerhouse
906-1/11/225 (South side)
29/09/77 Nos.274-298 (Even)
(Formerly Listed as:
LOWERHOUSE LANE
Nos.274-302 (Even))
GV II
Row of 13 cottages. c1820-30. For Dugdale's Lowerhouse mill;
altered. Coursed squared sandstone (Nos 276, 286 and 298
rendered, No.294 painted) stone slate roofs (except Nos 274-8
and No.282 which have composition tiles and No.280 which has
Welsh slate) with brick chimneys mostly rendered. A long
double-depth range on an obtusely-angled plan following the
line of the road, canted back from No.288 which has a convex
curved front; each cottage single-fronted.
2 low storeys, one 1st-floor window each except Nos 284 and
298 which have 2; with a continuous square-cut gutter cornice
sloping downwards slightly from left to right; doorways to the
left, mostly with monolith jambs and lintels which are plain
except for small stopped chamfer, but some chisel-dressed, and
all with recessed altered doors. Vertical-rectangular windows
with raised sills and run-out rectangular lintels, all with
altered glazing (and that at ground floor of No. 290 enlarged
and furnished with a C20 small-paned bow). Lateral "3-pot"
ridge chimneys variously altered but mostly with water-tabling
and cornices.
INTERIORS not inspected.
Forms group with Nos 304-8 to the right (qv), and with Nos
295-317 (qv) on the opposite side of the road.
Listing NGR: SD8082332738
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