The Moor House
THE MOOR HOUSE, OVERTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037814
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Moor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MOOR HOUSE, OVERTON ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13470/09
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037814
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Moor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MOOR HOUSE, OVERTON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE MOOR HOUSE, OVERTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Biddulph
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 89904 60077
Details
BIDDULPH C.P. OVERTON ROAD (north side) SJ 85 NE 3/40 The Moor House - - II
House, now flats. Mid-C19. Rock faced, coursed stone and smooth dressings; tiled roof with dressed verge parapets and finials; twinned, corniced ashlar side stacks. Irregular, loosely Italianate composition forming 'U' plan open to frontage. 2- and 3-storey entrance elevation on plinth of gabled two-storey projection (former service) wing to left and entrance wing to right; set-back to centre with gable to left; 4-stage campanile set back to right side; buttressed, strings at stages, dentil, corniced and brought-in to reduced 2-light bell chamber with pyramidal roof. Round-arch windows, transomed and corbel hooded to gables; 3- and 2- light to set-back, 2 to entrance and in a range of 2 single lights in cavetto reveals to campanile; flat-roofed single-storey tripartite balustraded, pilastered, projecting porch to entrance gable with flanking side-lights and round-arch entry to part-glazed doors. Commanding position in Parkland setting.
Listing NGR: SJ8990460077
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275247
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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