Wharf Cottages
WHARF COTTAGES, 2, 4 AND 6, CHEW VALLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067470
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wharf Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- WHARF COTTAGES, 2, 4 AND 6, CHEW VALLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067470
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wharf Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHARF COTTAGES, 2, 4 AND 6, CHEW VALLEY 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:
- WHARF COTTAGES, 2, 4 AND 6, CHEW VALLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Saddleworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 99196 04618
Details
SADDLEWORTH CHEW VALLEY SD 90 SE ROAD (south-west side) 5/38 Nos. 2, 4 and 6 Wharf - Cottages - II 3 houses. Mid/late C18 and mid C19 but incorporating a house of early C18. Watershot hammer-dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof. Double-depth houses with a total of 4 bays and 3 storeys. Bays 2 and 3 incorporate the early house which has stone quoins, square-cut door surrounds and 4 and 6-light stone mullion windows; some flat-faced, some recessed flat-faced and one (the earliest) double-chamfered. The second floor was added in late C18/early C19 after the construction of bay 1 (No. 6). Bay 1 has a square-cut door surround to left and each floor has a 5, 6, or 7-light recessed chamfered mullion window with king mullion and several mullions removed. Bay 4, of mid C19, has a window on each floor, an eaves cornice and is higher than the other bays. It is now part of No.2. Ridge chimney stacks rebuilt in brick.
Listing NGR: SD9919604618
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212046
- 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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