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Latitude: 53.6775 / 53°40'39"N
Longitude: -2.7941 / 2°47'38"W
OS Eastings: 347643
OS Northings: 420412
OS Grid: SD476204
Mapcode National: GBR 8TXX.WF
Mapcode Global: WH85Z.1TRL
Plus Code: 9C5VM6H4+29
Entry Name: 152 and 154, South Road
Listing Date: 17 April 1967
Last Amended: 30 January 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1072570
English Heritage Legacy ID: 184280
ID on this website: 101072570
Location: Bretherton, Chorley, Lancashire, PR26
County: Lancashire
District: Chorley
Civil Parish: Bretherton
Built-Up Area: Bretherton
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Bretherton St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
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BRETHERTON SOUTH ROAD
SD 42 SE
3/29 Nos.152 and 154 (Formerly listed
17.4.67 as Bretherton Free School)
GV II
School, now 2 houses. Dated 1653 on lintel; altered. Roughcast brick, common
brick rear, slate roof. Rectangular plan, 3 bays, altered. Two storeys;
no.154 on left has single-storey gabled porch of squared sandstone,
segmental-headed doorway breaking into a large rectangular datestone
displaying a lengthy inscription in raised lettering:
THIS FREE SCHOOL WAS ERECTED AND BUILT AT THE
PROPER COSTS AND CHARGES OF JAMES FLETCHER OF
LONDON MARCANT AND AT THE REQUEST OF MISTRIS
JANE FLETCHER HIS WIFE WHO WAS BORNE IN THIS
TOWNE. JUNE THE FOURTEENTH ANNODONI 1653
One window on each side of porch on each floor, all C19 4-pane sashes; 2
similar but smaller windows on each floor of no.152 to right; ridge chimney at
junction, gable chimney at right end. Rear of less interest. Interior:
altered, but no.154 has 2 stopped 1/4-round moulded beams, and no.152 has a
roughly-hewn chamfered beam, cambered in the centre.
Listing NGR: SD4764320412
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