Higher Windy Bank Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
HIGHER WINDY BANK FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN, OLD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068532
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Windy Bank Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER WINDY BANK FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN, OLD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068532
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Windy Bank Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER WINDY BANK FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN, OLD ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- HIGHER WINDY BANK FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN, OLD ROAD
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:
- HIGHER WINDY BANK FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN, OLD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER WINDY BANK FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN, OLD ROAD
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 94534 16554
Details
SD 91 NW LITTLEBOROUGH BLACKSTONE EDGE OLD ROAD (south side)
1/6 Higher Windy Bank - Farmhouse and adjoining barn
- II Farmhouse and barn. Late C17 with C18 alterations and C19 barn. Hammer-dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof. 2-bay 2-storey house with barn to right. Quoins and projecting plinth. Central porch has cyma-moulded door surround, obtuse-angled lintel and a coped parapet with corner dies above a band on the same lines as that at Old Bent House (q.v.) which is dated 1691 and was built by Joseph Buckley. Right bay is obscured by a later outshut addition with 1 and 3-light flat-faced windows, the left bay has 4-light flat-faced mullion window on each floor (with 1 light blocked) but has a hoodmould of a former C17 window. Diagonally set shafts to gable chimney stacks, that to right projecting. Right gable has two 2-light double-chamfered windows. Rear with eaves raised is obscured by large addition. The barn uses watershot stone and has a round- headed cart entry, a segmental-headed shippon door and other door and window openings.
Listing NGR: SD9453416554
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213338
- 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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