Ryefields and Ryefields Cottage
RYEFIELDS AND RYEFIELDS COTTAGE, RYEFIELDS DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068129
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ryefields and Ryefields Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- RYEFIELDS AND RYEFIELDS COTTAGE, RYEFIELDS DRIVE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068129
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ryefields and Ryefields Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- RYEFIELDS AND RYEFIELDS COTTAGE, RYEFIELDS DRIVE
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:
- RYEFIELDS AND RYEFIELDS COTTAGE, RYEFIELDS DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Saddleworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 00071 06505
Details
SADDLEWORTH RYEFIELDS DRIVE SE 00 NW Uppermill 4/264 Ryefields and Ryefields - Cottage - II House and cottage. Late C18 with early C19 alterations. Hammer-dressed watershot stone with graduated stone slate roof. Double-depth plan with a total of 6 bays and 3 storeys and with later wing to rear. The cottage (left) postdates the house and has an early C19 porch with 4-centred arch doorway and coped gable, an altered ground floor window and 4 and 1-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows. Rusticated door surround to gable. The house has a similar porch with canted bay window to left and square bay window to right all of C19 date. The first and second floors each have two 4 and two 2-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows. Early C19 coped parapet above an eaves band which has 6 niches below small gablets. 4 ridge chimney stacks with cornices. Coped gables with kneelers. Arched window and a porch to right gable. Door with arched head to rear and 3, 4 and 11-light recessed flat-faced mullion windows, many retaining original leaded panes. 2 blocked taking-in doors. Panelled entrance hall and other fittings dating from the early C19 alteration. B. Barnes, Saddleworth Heritage, 1975.
Listing NGR: SE0007106505
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212287
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barnes, B, Saddleworth Heritage, (1975)
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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