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Lancashire Historic Town SurveySlaidburnFour of these character areas comprise working farms, Townhead, Poorsland Farm,Duckmire Farm and Baite Laithe Farm. All of these are situated on the edges of the surveyarea. The final area of this character type is an area of agricultural fields situated to theeast of Church Street.Twentieth Century Public (Area 10)This area comprises a health centre, built c 1975, on Town End on the edge of the surveyarea. A cottage and some ‘bee-boles’ were demolished prior to its construction(www.slaidburn.org.uk).Twentieth Century Recreation (Area 11)This area comprises a bowling green and is situated on the edge of the defined surveyarea.Twentieth Century Transport (Area 12-13)Character areas relating to transport in the twentieth century in Slaidburn are exclusivelyassociated with the car. The first area is an area of car parking, the adjacent section of theroad and New Bridge. New Bridge is listed at grade two and incorporates a listed socketstone of a medieval wayside cross. The second area is the section of the road leadingfrom Old Bridge to Townhead. However, further areas of car parking occur elsewhere inthe survey area, as features within other character areas, rather than forming separatecharacter areas in their own right.Individual Housing (1918-c1950) (Area 14)There is one character area of this type in Slaidburn situated adjacent to Poorsland Farmnear to New Bridge. It comprises Hodder View, which is a detached dwelling and HighBank and Rathmere, which are a pair of semi-detached dwellings.Natural (Area 15)This area comprises a section of the Croasdale Brook and its adjacent wooded banks. Itincludes a weir.Open Ground (Areas 16-19)There are two large areas of open ground in Slaidburn, by Croasdale Brook and by theRiver Hodder by New Bridge. There are two smaller areas off Town End. Area 19 may bethe site of buildings that are no longer extant (OS 1850 1:10560, 165).© Lancashire County Council 2006 16
Lancashire Historic Town SurveySlaidburn5.2 Building materialsStone was freely available for building locally, and the village is entirely stone built.Sandstone is the most common building material, though there are a number built withlimestone and a few have been constructed with a mixture of the two. Sandstone wasgenerally used for door and windows dressings. Most of the older buildings, are built ofslobbered limestone or sandstone rubble, sometimes with sandstone dressings andsometimes rendered. In the early nineteenth century, some houses were built usingsquared sandstone, such as 18-20 Church Street and 20-24 Chapel Street, and otherswere built using watershot techniques, as at 13-15 Church Street(www.imagesofengland.org.uk). There are few surviving roofs covered with stone flags,most are now slate covered. The Moot Hall, however, which was replaced by a girls’school in 1873, had a thatched, steep, gabled roof (Peel 1922, 39). One of the few latenineteenth century buildings, also built in stone is the former reading room at Town Endwhich was built in 1888.5.3 Housing typesSlaidburn is characterised by rows of cottages, mainly two-up, two-down which opendirectly onto the street. Many still have surviving cobbled verges. These would have beenbuilt as dwellings for agricultural workers or handloom weavers from the late eighteenth tothe mid-nineteenth centuries. In addition, there are a number of small former farmhouseswith barns attached, a reflection of the large number of individual farmers listed on the1841 census, compared with the number of agricultural labourers (Spencer 1999b). Theoldest surviving buildings, built in a vernacular style, are the larger farmhouses such asKnott Farm, Town End, which dates to the seventeenth century, Church Stile Farm, ChurchStreet, which is largely eighteenth century with seventeenth century fragments, andDuckmire Farmhouse on Chapel Street, which dates to the late eighteenth century, withreused seventeenth century stonework. The Hark to Bounty Inn, at the centre of thevillage, was also built in vernacular style in the early seventeenth century date, although italso has eighteenth century fabric. Rock House is an early nineteenth century, double-pilehouse of classical design and construction whilst Townhead, the home of theWigglesworths, the main village family, is a three-storey vernacular dwelling of the lateseventeenth century.Nineteenth century development was limited by the isolated rural position of Slaidburn, witha lack of industrialisation and consequent population growth within the settlement. Thehousing stock established by the early nineteenth century has always been sufficient tomeet the settlement’s housing needs.5.4 Communication networksThere is a Roman road, joining the forts of Ribchester and Burrow in Lonsdale, whichpasses only two kilometres or so to the west of Slaidburn, but the main route to passthrough the village was the road from Clitheroe to Tosside, Wigglesworth and LongPreston. This road followed Church Street and The Skaithe, and was probably the mostfrequented (Raistrick 1978, 45). The road crossed the Croasdale Brook over the OldBridge, which is almost certainly the bridge documented for repairs in the seventeenthcentury (WYAS QS/1/16/4/7/5; QS/1/16/4/8/1). There was also a packhorse route to thenorth, known as Salters Gate, which followed Shay Lane on the west side of CroasdaleBrook, and went via Ramsclough onto the ridge of Salter Fell, eventually to Hornby and theLune crossing at Gressingham (Raistrick 1978, 45). East of this was the road to Benthamvia Cross of Greet. There is another ancient way which left the village by Shay Lane andWoodhouse eventually becoming the packhorse route used by salters to Clapham viaBowland Knotts (Porter 1994, 40). Slaidburn, therefore was situated at the junction of anumber of routes that crossed Bowland from Clitheroe.© Lancashire County Council 2006 17
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