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Latitude: 53.7357 / 53°44'8"N
Longitude: -2.568 / 2°34'4"W
OS Eastings: 362625
OS Northings: 426739
OS Grid: SD626267
Mapcode National: GBR BTH7.TL
Mapcode Global: WH970.JCBH
Plus Code: 9C5VPCPJ+7Q
Entry Name: Vale House Farmhouse
Listing Date: 30 January 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1072498
English Heritage Legacy ID: 184405
ID on this website: 101072498
Location: Hoghton Bottoms, Chorley, Lancashire, PR5
County: Lancashire
District: Chorley
Civil Parish: Hoghton
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Hoghton Holy Trinity
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Farmhouse
HOGHTON VIADUCT ROAD
SD 62 NW
2/151 Vale House Farmhouse
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- II
House, now farmhouse. Later C18, possibly with earlier origins, altered.
Watershot coursed sandstone with quoins, stone slate (rear) and slate roof,
with brick chimney stacks at the gables. Double-depth 3-bay plan. Three
storeys, symmetrical; 1st floor band; eaves brackets; central glazed and
panelled door with shallow rectangular 3-pane fanlight, two 4-pane sashed
windows at ground floor and 3 at 1st floor, most with splayed stone heads,
3 small 6-pane sashes at 2nd floor. Left gable wall has two 4-pane sashes
at ground floor; right gable wall has 3 windows at ground floor and 2 at
1st floor (one blind). Rear has inter alia a doorway with plain surround,
above this a tall 2-stage stairlight with flat flush mullion and transom
and 3 panes in each light; at 2nd floor two 2-light flush mullion windows
with 6 panes in each light, and a single-storey extension to the rear of
the 3rd bay. Interior: has 19 rooms including 4 cellars. History:
associated with the de Hoghton family of Hoghton tower (q.v.); said to have
been built as a gentleman's residence, the farmhouse itself now
demolished.
Listing NGR: SD6262526738
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