Lower Crow Nest Farmhouse
LOWER CROW NEST FARMHOUSE, KILN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068494
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Crow Nest Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER CROW NEST FARMHOUSE, KILN LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/16003/33
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068494
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Crow Nest Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER CROW NEST FARMHOUSE, KILN 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:
- LOWER CROW NEST FARMHOUSE, KILN 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 93578 13308
Details
SD 91 SW, 3/92
MILNROW,
KILN LANE (north side),
Lower Crow Nest Farmhouse
24/1/67
II
House. "Ga Gartside May 1669" on relocated tablet, but
possibly dating from early C17. Late C19 addition. Squared
rubble (partly rendered) with rock-faced stone addition and
slate roof. Central unit of original house with its 2-
storey porch and part of right cross wing remain whereas the
left was demolished to accommodate the C19 addition. Porch
has quoins, a hoodmould which rises above a moulded door
surround with Tudor-arched lintel, inscribed tablet,
cavetto-moulded mullion first floor window with 3 arched
lights and a flat hood, and a coped gable with kneelers. The
house-part has a 4-light double-chamfered mullion and
transom window with a flat hoodmould and a 3-light double-
chamfered first floor window. Chimney stack to right with
diagonally set shaft. The gabled cross wing has been reduced
in size but retains a 2-light double-transom stair window at
the rear as well as other original windows. Chamfered floor
beams to house-part which retains a moulded fire surround.
The house may date from a conveyance of 1612.
Listing NGR: SD9357813308
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213430
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fishwick, H, History of Rochdale, (1889)
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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