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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Date:: 2007-04-20
Reference:: IOE01/13470/09
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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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

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Legacy System number:: 275247
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.