FORMER MORAVIAN COLLEGE

FORMER MORAVIAN COLLEGE, 13, 13A AND 14, FAIRFIELD SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1067979
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: FORMER MORAVIAN COLLEGE
Statutory Address:: FORMER MORAVIAN COLLEGE, 13, 13A AND 14, FAIRFIELD SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1067979
Date first listed:: 17-Nov-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: FORMER MORAVIAN COLLEGE
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER MORAVIAN COLLEGE, 13, 13A AND 14, FAIRFIELD SQUARE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER MORAVIAN COLLEGE, 13, 13A AND 14, FAIRFIELD SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 90215 97624

Details

DROYLSDEN FAIRFIELD SQUARE SJ 99 NW

4/70 Nos. 13, 13A and 14 (Former Moravian College) (formerly listed as Nos 11, llA, 12, 13, No 14 17/11/66 (Fairfield Moravian College)

G.V. II

House, now a temporary clinic. c.1785. Flemish bond brick with slate roof. 5 bays and 3 storeys with lower 2-storey wings projecting to the rear at either side. Symmetrical elevation with stone plinth and central 3 bays which are slightly advanced. Central 6-panel door with stone eared architrave surround and pediment. Each floor has 4 or 5 four pane sash windows with C19 stone lintels and sills. The elevation originally included 2 Venetian windows which were removed in C19. Eaves are supported on bold C19 brackets. Gable chimney stacks. The rear left wing includes No. 13, which has been partly re-built in C19 and C20, and was partly used as the Moravian girls boarding school from 1796. The house itself was intended to house single Moravian women (sisters). It was changed to the girls boarding school in 1876 and in 1906-1958 was the Moravian Theological College.

Listing NGR: SJ9021597624

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Legacy System number:: 212726
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.