Higher Castleshaw Farmhouse

HIGHER CASTLESHAW FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1067467
Date first listed:
03-Jul-1986
Statutory Address:
HIGHER CASTLESHAW FARMHOUSE

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1067467
Date first listed:
03-Jul-1986
Statutory Address 1:
HIGHER CASTLESHAW FARMHOUSE

Location

Statutory Address:
HIGHER CASTLESHAW FARMHOUSE

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 00198 09471

Details

SADDLEWORTH CASTLESHAW SE 00 NW 4/30 Higher - Castleshaw Farmhouse G.V. II Farmhouse, now house. Early C18. Dressed stone and hammer- dressed watershot stone with graduated stone slate roof. 3 bays and 2 storeys with 2 early additional wings to rear. Quoins to right. Central door with square-cut surround and pulvinated impost blocks is flanked by a small window on either side with square-cut surround. 6-light window to left with blocked fire-window to extreme left. 6-light window to right which has been heightened in C20. Three 3-light first floor windows. All windows have recessed cavetto-moulded mullion windows. Coped gables and gable chimney stacks. Blocked arched light and 2 and 3-light gable windows (the latter of C20). Gabled wings to rear have three 2-light and a 3-light cavetto-moulded mullion window and door with dressed surround. Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society, Vol.ll, No.4, 1981.

Listing NGR: SE0019809471

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Legacy System number:
212038
Legacy System:
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Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society in Number 4, Vol. 2, (1981)

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