Former Mossley Town Hall

FORMER MOSSLEY TOWN HALL, STAMFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1068044
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Former Mossley Town Hall
Statutory Address:
FORMER MOSSLEY TOWN HALL, STAMFORD ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1068044
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Former Mossley Town Hall
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER MOSSLEY TOWN HALL, STAMFORD 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER MOSSLEY TOWN HALL, STAMFORD ROAD

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

District:
Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Mossley
National Grid Reference:
SD 97280 02049

Details

SD 90 SE MOSSLEY STAMFORD ROAD (west side)

1/128 Former Mossley 22.11.66 Town Hall

G.V. II

Town hall, originally a private house and now disused. 1862. W. Williamson for George Mayall. Ashlar with slate roof. Large asymmetrical plan of 8 bays and 2 storeys executed in an Italianate style. Projecting plinth, first floor band and sill band, enriched modillion eaves cornice, and rusticated quoins. Bay 3, which projects and is gabled with an open pediment has a tripartite ground floor window and a first floor window with open segmental pediment. The porch in bay 2 also projects and has semi-circular keystone arches on square piers with banded rustication and small polished granite columns, carved panels, bracketed cornice and pierced parapet with corner urns. Other windows are generally sashes with moulded surrounds on the ground floor and with round heads on the first (none have glazing bars). Grouped chimney stacks with cornices. The sides and rear are treated similarly but in a less grand manner.

Listing NGR: SD9728002049

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
212588
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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