Fairbottom Farmhouse
FAIRBOTTOM FARMHOUSE, ALT HILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067988
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Fairbottom Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FAIRBOTTOM FARMHOUSE, ALT HILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067988
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fairbottom Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIRBOTTOM FARMHOUSE, ALT HILL LANE
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:
- FAIRBOTTOM FARMHOUSE, ALT HILL LANE
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:
- SD 94057 01867
Details
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE ALT HILL LANE SD 90 SW (north side)
1/1 Fairbottom Farmhouse (formerly listed as Fairbottom Farmhouse including Fairbottom Cottage 12/1/67 (formerly Pickford Hall)
- II
House. Probably late C17 but with later alterations. Squared rubble with graduated stone slate roof. 4-bay, 2-storey plan with wing to rear right and ruins of former cottage to left. Quoins, continuous dripmould and eaves cornice. Door (now window) has Doric columns supporting a pediment above a massive stone lintel. A later door (and C20 porch) was inserted to extreme left. 2 casement windows on ground floor. 4 first floor windows (2 of which are C19 sashes) with moulded stone architraves. Ridge and gable chimney stacks in brick. The rear wing has a 3-light double- chamfered window surround, the mullions having been removed. Said to contain datestones "1673 IA PS AL" (John Andrew) and "1653 IL AL". W. M. Bowman, England in Ashton-under-Lyne 1960. Victoria County History of Lancashire, 1911, vol. 4.
Listing NGR: SD9405701867
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212649
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911)
Bowman, W M, England in Ashton under Lyne, (1960)
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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