Old Post Office Farm
OLD POST OFFICE FARM, 2, BACK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068051
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Old Post Office Farm
- Statutory Address:
- OLD POST OFFICE FARM, 2, BACK LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01373/28
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068051
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Old Post Office Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD POST OFFICE FARM, 2, BACK 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:
- OLD POST OFFICE FARM, 2, BACK 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:
- SJ9930695582
Details
SJ 99 NE
4/43
1.11.66
LONGDENDALE
BACK LANE
(west side)
No. 2 (Old Post
Office Farm)
G.V.
II
Includes left hand bay only of No. 50 MARKET STREET (west
side) which was formerly part of the same house. House,
"NWM 1694" (Nicholas and Martha Wagstaffe) on door lintel.
Squared coursed rubble with graduated stone slate roof and
brick stack. 2-bay baffle-entry plan with 2 storeys, a 2-
story porch,one room in depth and a slightly later wing
added to rear. Stone plinth and quoins. Symmetrical facade
with 5-light house-part window (with 3 mullions removed) and
three 3-light windows (one with mullions removed) all with
double-chamfered stone mullions. The central porch has an
off-centre chamfered door surround, a round-headed first
floor light, an owl hole and dove holes, and coped gable
with kneelers and ball finials. Central ridge chimney
stack. Rear has 2 windows with mullion removed. Round-
headed attic gable light. Interior has a wattle and daub
timber-framed partition on 2 floors.
Listing NGR: SJ9930695582
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212501
- 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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