Summerseat House
SUMMERSEAT HOUSE, NEWCOMBE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067246
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Summerseat House
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMERSEAT HOUSE, NEWCOMBE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067246
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Summerseat House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUMMERSEAT HOUSE, NEWCOMBE 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:
- SUMMERSEAT HOUSE, NEWCOMBE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bury (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 78781 14768
Details
SD 71 SE NEWCOMBE ROAD
5/151 Summerseat
Summerseat House
II
Built 1836 by Richard Hamer, cotton mill owner. Large detached house. Symmetrical
rendered front. Two storeys. Five sash windows (some missing glazing bars). Large, wide
porch with Tuscan columns supporting entablature. Door, three moulded and fielded panels
wide and four tall. Side lights with trellis glazing bars. Fanlight with depressed
head across door and side lights has delicate decorative glazing bars. Dentilled
eaves cornice. Hipped slate roof behind blocking course. Two tall central stacks.
One-storey flat-roofed extension to left, with tripartite window with narrow side
lights in return front. INTERIOR: elliptical arch between hall and open-well staircase,
which has iron balustrade of sinuous floral design and cupola above with elaborate plasterwork surround of high quality.
Listing NGR: SD7878114768
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 210707
- 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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