The Roundhouse, Wheatsheaf Buildings
THE ROUNDHOUSE, WHEATSHEAF BUILDINGS, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068526
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Roundhouse, Wheatsheaf Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROUNDHOUSE, WHEATSHEAF BUILDINGS, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068526
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Roundhouse, Wheatsheaf Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROUNDHOUSE, WHEATSHEAF BUILDINGS, THE SQUARE
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:
- THE ROUNDHOUSE, WHEATSHEAF BUILDINGS, THE SQUARE
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:
- SD9376016348
Details
SF 91 NW LITTLEBOROUGH THE SQUARE
1/65 The Roundhouse,
Wheatsheaf
- Buildings
- II
Public house and shops. Early 1860s. Rock-faced stone with
slate roof. Semi-circular plan with 3 storeys and a total of
10 bays. Continuous sill and impost bands and a pierced
parapet with articulating dies above the eaves cornice.
Single and paired sash windows with round-arched heads and
pointed hoodmoulds on the ground floor, shouldered heads on
the first floor and arched heads on the second floor. 2 shop
windows on north side. Doors have arches, shouldered arches
or in one case colonnettes with naturalistic capitals
supporting a cusped arch and multi-foiled overlight. Ridge
chimney stacks. Interior much altered but the pub retains
some original features - fireplaces, plaster cornices and
staircase with cast-iron balusters. Directories record
Robert Hirst as the publican of the Wheat Sheaf in 1821, the
name going as far back as 1780.
Listing NGR: SD9376016348
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213401
- 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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