Foul Rake House
FOUL RAKE HOUSE, KINDER'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068175
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Foul Rake House
- Statutory Address:
- FOUL RAKE HOUSE, KINDER'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068175
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Foul Rake House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOUL RAKE HOUSE, KINDER'S 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:
- FOUL RAKE HOUSE, KINDER'S LANE
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 99784 04406
Details
SADDLEWORTH KINDER'S LANE SD 90 SE (north-west side) 5/176 Foul Rake House 19/6/67 - II House. "JA MA 1746" (John and Mary Andrew) on door lintel with later alterations and additions. Watershot hammer- dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof. Originally a 3-bay 2-storey single-depth house connected to a barn at the right which had a wing at front creating an L-shape. A similar wing was added to the left and the space between filled in in late C18. Wings to left and right have quoins, gables and ball finials; the right a blocked doorway and the left two 2-light chamfered mullion windows and a C20 window. The infill between the wings has 3 bays, a blocked door to right with ovolo-moulded surround, a central panelled door with pilasters, tripartite keystone and decorative fanlight flanked by 2-light chamfered mullion windows. 3 similar windows on first floor (one mullion missing) and a dentilled eaves cornice. The rear has 3 and 7-light double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullion windows and a C20 window on the ground floor and 3, 4 and 4-light chamfered windows on the first. The finely carved 1746 datestone with fleur-de-lys is now on an internal wall. Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society, Vol.3, No.3, 1973.
Listing NGR: SD9978404406
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212191
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society in Number 3, Vol. 3, (1973)
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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