Dean Head Farm and Adjoining Cottage
DEAN HEAD FARM AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, DEAN HEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067443
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Dean Head Farm and Adjoining Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DEAN HEAD FARM AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, DEAN HEAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067443
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Dean Head Farm and Adjoining Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEAN HEAD FARM AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, DEAN HEAD
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:
- DEAN HEAD FARM AND ADJOINING COTTAGE, DEAN HEAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Saddleworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 00889 09485
Details
SADDLEWORTH DEAN HEAD SE 00 NW 4/73 Dean Head Farm and adjoining - cottage G.V. II House and cottage. c.1790 and early C19. Hammer-dressed watershot stone with graduated stone slate roof. Double- depth 3-storey 2-bay house with small 1-storey wing to right and 3-storey single-depth cottage added to left. Quoins. The house has 5 and 6-light windows on the ground and first floors and 3, 4 and 3-light on the second, whereas the cottage has a 2-light window on each floor and a square-cut door surround. 2-light gable windows and similar fenestration to rear. All windows have recessed flat-faced stone mullions. Dressed door surround to right gable. Kneelers. Gable chimney stacks. B. Barnes, Saddleworth Heritage, 1975.
Listing NGR: SE0088909485
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212086
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barnes, B, Saddleworth Heritage, (1975)
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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