Scowcroft Farmhouse
SCOWCROFT FARMHOUSE, SCOWCROFT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068467
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Scowcroft Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SCOWCROFT FARMHOUSE, SCOWCROFT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068467
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Scowcroft Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCOWCROFT FARMHOUSE, SCOWCROFT 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:
- SCOWCROFT FARMHOUSE, SCOWCROFT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 88682 06526
Details
MIDDLETON SCOWCROFT LANE SD 80 NE (north side) 2/26 Scowcroft - Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. C16 or C17 timber-framed house which has been successively altered and rebuilt in later centuries. The walls of the original timber-framed structure are all either rendered or rebuilt in brick. Graduated stone slate and C20 tile roof. H-shaped 2-storey plan with wing to rear. Gabled crosswings project to left and right, the former being partly rebuilt in C20 brick. Central gabled porch. 3 or 4 C20 casement windows on each floor. Brick ridge chimney stack. Similar windows to rear. Interior: most of the roof structure, a considerable amount of the floor structure and some of the original timber framing remains intact. The floor beams may have been inserted into an open hall in the late C16. Tie-beam trusses have inclined struts and show evidence through mortice holes of the form of the timber framed structure. The extent of the framework buried in the walls in unknown although the principals are clearly visible. Early C18 dogleg staircase with deep rail and turned balusters. Panelled doors.
Listing NGR: SD8868206526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213466
- 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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