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Greenthorne

A Grade II Listed Building in Edgworth, Blackburn with Darwen

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6504 / 53°39'1"N

Longitude: -2.3888 / 2°23'19"W

OS Eastings: 374395

OS Northings: 417174

OS Grid: SD743171

Mapcode National: GBR CVR7.M4

Mapcode Global: WH97H.8HQV

Plus Code: 9C5VMJ26+5F

Entry Name: Greenthorne

Listing Date: 27 September 1984

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1241931

English Heritage Legacy ID: 440681

ID on this website: 101241931

Location: Edgworth, Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, BL7

County: Blackburn with Darwen

Civil Parish: North Turton

Built-Up Area: Edgworth

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 TURTON (off) BROADHiIhD ROAD Edgworth

7/100 Greenthorne - GV II

Manufacturer's mansion, 1860, for James Barlow. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, 2-span slate roof with cross-gables, various chimneys. Rectangular plan, roughly 4x3 bays. Two and 2½ storeys, in free Gothic style, with steeply-pitched roofs and gables, some pointed arched doors and windows. Principal feature of the asymmetrical left side is a large 2-storey porch which rises above the eaves, has bands on 2 levels, sloped diagonal buttresses to the ground floor dying into chamfered corners at 1st floor, a triangular- headed moulded doorway offset to the right, a pointed light above the band to the left, a 1st floor window of 5 pointed lights, a parapet and a hipped monopitched roof running up into the gable of the stairwell. To the left of this the main features are a tall gabled dormer breaking the eaves, and beyond this a gabled crosswing with an oriel window at 1st floor and attic window of 2 pointed lights. To the right is a tall extruded chimney stack. Garden front (right return wall) has 2 gables with large 1st floor windows, between them at 1st floor a small window of 3 pointed lights, to the right at ground floor a canted bay window, and the rest of the ground floor is covered by a large rectangular conservatory with glazed walls and hipped glazed roof protected by a balustrade. Interior is little altered.

Listing NGR: SD7439517174

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