Grotton Hall
GROTTON HALL, PLATTING ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1068157
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Grotton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- GROTTON HALL, PLATTING ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1068157
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Grotton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROTTON HALL, PLATTING 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.
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:
- GROTTON HALL, PLATTING ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Saddleworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 97199 04854
Details
SADDLEWORTH PLATTING ROAD SD 90 SE (west side) 5/230 Grotton Hall 19/6/67 G.V. II* House. "IBM 1686" (Isaac and Mary Buckley) on porch lintel, "IBK 1725" "EB1844" and "1984" on datestones. Much of what remains is the result of Edmond Buckley's 1844 restoration. Watershot hammer-dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof. 5-bay 2-storey house including bay 1 extension and a rear lean-to extension of 1984. Projecting plinth. Porch in bay 4 with ovolo-moulded surround and obtuse angle dated lintel; raked castellations and ball finials. 2, 4 and 4- light windows to each floor all with double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullions and hoodmoulds with upturned stops. All the ground floor lights are arched and there is an additional 1-light window above the porch. Coped gables with ball finials and stone-dressed circular windows to bays 1, 3 and 5. The side and rear have similar window and gable features as well as a 3-light pointed arch mullion and transom stair window with Gothic-style tracery. Interior: south-east room has panelling and a chimney-piece with carved faces, swags and side columns. Principal room retains ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with stepped stops including a bressummer beam over an inglenook fireplace which has had a later stone hearth inserted with obtuse- angled lintel and recessed spandrels. Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society Vol.15, No.1, 1985.
Listing NGR: SD9719904854
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212251
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society in Number 1, Vol. 15, (1985)
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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