THE ROUNDHOUSE, WHEATSHEAF BUILDINGS

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:: THE ROUNDHOUSE, WHEATSHEAF BUILDINGS, THE SQUARE

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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

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Legacy System number:: 213401
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.