List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: GABLE END COTTAGE
WHITEHALL
WHITEHALL COTTAGES
List Entry Number: 1072410
Location
GABLE END COTTAGE, PARK ROAD
GABLE END COTTAGE, QUEEN'S ROAD
WHITEHALL COTTAGES, 1, PARK ROAD
WHITEHALL COTTAGES, 1, QUEEN'S ROAD
WHITEHALL, PARK ROAD
WHITEHALL, QUEEN'S ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Blackburn with Darwen
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Darwen
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 27-Sep-1984
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 184692
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History
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Details
SD 62 SE DARWEN PARK ROAD
4/21
Whitehall, No.1 Whitehall Cottages,
- and Gable End Cottage
-
II
House, mostly C17 and C18, but perhaps originally 1557, altered and extended
at various periods, now 3 dwellings. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins,
mostly with high stone plinth, all painted white, roof of stone slates and
some slates, on 2 levels, with gable copings and kneelers, 3 brick chimneys
and an extruded stone chimney at the right end now cut down to the eaves.
Plan formerly 3/4-H, but now L-shaped with projecting wing on right, the
original re-entrant to the rear of the centre bay having been filled (with
watershot masonry); lower C19 extension at left end. Three and 2 storeys:
main range 3 storeys to front, with 2 windows on each floor, all different
and mostly altered except top floor left which is of 3 lights with stone
mullions, and the one below which has coupled 12-light windows with glazing
bars. Wing is 2 storeys (to same height) and has unusual tall windows with
projecting moulded surrounds with consoles beneath and cornices above: one
on each floor to front and rear, 2 on each floor in the right return wall
(a modern single storey lean-to covering the base of the chimney stack
between them), and in the front gable a blocked square opening with similar
surround, Other openings of less interest, but doorway in angle with wing
was formerly covered by lean-to porch. Modern porch covering door to
front of wing incorporates at ground level a moulded Tudor-arched chimney
piece with spandrels lettered "RH" "1557", which was in situ (over cross-
corner fireplace in main range) in 1889. Interior: ground floor of original
rear wall of centre bay has a 2-light stone mullioned window; beneath
C19 extension at left end is older cellar including a cell which has a
small window with a saddle bar; top floor of 1st bay has original ridge
and purlins. Said to be the oldest house in Darwen. (Shaw Darwen and its
People 1889, p.46; Darwen News 30th July 1932). Centre bay being altered
internally (1984) to make only 2 storeys).
Listing NGR: SD6958720547
Selected Sources
Books and journalsShaw, J G, Darwen and its People, (1889), 46
'Darwen News' in 30 July, (1932)
Map
National Grid Reference: SD 69587 20547
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