Albion Warehouse
ALBION WAREHOUSE, PENNY MEADOW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1068001
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Albion Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- ALBION WAREHOUSE, PENNY MEADOW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1068001
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Albion Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALBION WAREHOUSE, PENNY MEADOW
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:
- ALBION WAREHOUSE, PENNY MEADOW
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 94315 99253
Details
In the entry for: ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE PENNY MEADOW SJ 99 NW (south side)
4/29 Albion Warehouse (formerly listed as 12/01/67 National Insurance Offices(former New Albion Schools))
GV II the Grade shall be amended to read Grade II*(star).
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ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE PENNY MEADOW SJ 99 NW (south side)
4/29 Albion Warehouse (formerly listed as National Insurance Offices, 12/01/67 (former new Albion Schools))
G.V. II
School, now warehouse. 1861-2. By Paull and Ayliffe. Polychromatic brick with ashlar dressings and slate roof. 11 bays and 2 storeys with projecting stair wings to rear and lower 4-bay wing to left. Italianate style. Projecting plinth, first floor band, white brick striations and bracketed eaves cornice. Front and rear are dominated by a central 3-bay projection which is pedimented and has a round-arched 2-light window with tracery on the first floor. At the rear it is flanked by stair wings which project even further and are themselves pedimented but at the front on either side are elaborate ashlar door surrounds with foliated capitals to columns and a semi-circular hood and dropped keystone. Windows are symmetrically arranged and have 8-pane casements with segmental-brick arched heads and keystones on the ground floor and semi-circular heads on the first floor with impost band and polychromatic voussoirs. Hipped roof. Each end has a pedimented projection. Decorative tower styled like a campanile with a pyramidal roof. The adjoining boundary wall has decorative cast-iron railings (removed to east) on stone plinth and gate posts. Interior:, the first floor is an impressive hall with arched bracing to queen-post roof trusses. Various timber,cast-iron and plasterwork remains. William Glover, History of Ashton- under-Lyne, 1884.
Listing NGR: SJ9431599253
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212677
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Glover, W, History of Ashton under Lyne, (1884)
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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