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Meadowcroft's Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in North Turton, Blackburn with Darwen

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6402 / 53°38'24"N

Longitude: -2.3892 / 2°23'20"W

OS Eastings: 374367

OS Northings: 416033

OS Grid: SD743160

Mapcode National: GBR CVRB.KT

Mapcode Global: WH97H.8RKQ

Plus Code: 9C5VJJR6+38

Entry Name: Meadowcroft's Farmhouse

Listing Date: 27 September 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1260270

English Heritage Legacy ID: 440683

ID on this website: 101260270

Location: Turton Bottoms, Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, BL7

County: Blackburn with Darwen

Civil Parish: North Turton

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Turton St Anne

Church of England Diocese: Manchester

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Description


SD 71 NW
7/102

TURTON
BURY ROAD
Edgworth
Meadowcroft's Farmhouse

II
Farmhouse, probably c.1700, altered, now house. Coursed sandstone
rubble with quoins, slate roof on 2 levels with gable chimneys to
the higher of these. Built on slope, 2 bays with continuous outshut
and smaller added bay slightly lower and set back to the right. Two
storeys: original rear outshut, raised, now entrance front, has modern
porch to 2nd bay, a 3-light window with chamfered mullions to 1st bay,
similar window in centre of 1st floor; 3rd (added) bay has similar
window of 2+3 lights (5th blocked), rear of this part has a 4-light
window on each floor, the lower with a hoodmould and the upper lacking
2 mullions, a doorway with modern canopy and a small round-headed window
above it; rear of main house has 2 large buttresses, a 6-light window
(lacking one mullion) to the 2nd bay, 2 altered windows with flush
mullions at 1st floor. Interior: 2nd bay has large inglenook with
stone heck and chamfered bressummer, containing a stone fireplace
with moulded shouldered jambs and very large lintel undercut as a
depressed arch, recesses for salt cupboards on each side; beams with
cyma-stopped small chamfer; roof of outshut supported by very large
principals and purlins.


Listing NGR: SD7436716033

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