Rockcliffe House
ROCKCLIFFE HOUSE, NEWCHURCH ROAD STACKSTEADS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072826
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Rockcliffe House
- Statutory Address:
- ROCKCLIFFE HOUSE, NEWCHURCH ROAD STACKSTEADS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072826
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Rockcliffe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCKCLIFFE HOUSE, NEWCHURCH ROAD STACKSTEADS
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:
- ROCKCLIFFE HOUSE, NEWCHURCH ROAD STACKSTEADS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Rossendale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 86294 21981
Details
SD 82 SE BACUP NEWCHURCH ROAD Stacksteads
7/40 Rockcliffe House 19.6.1968 GV II
Large house, 1891, by Smith and Cross of Rochdale for J.H. Maden; now 2 dwellings. Ashlar, hipped slate roof with 2 chimney stacks at each side wall. T-plan: square main block 3x3 bays, with rectangular service wing to rear. Two storeys, symmetrical, in classical style, with pilasters, cornice, balustraded parapet with urns; windows sashed without glazing bars; pedimented centre breaking forwards slightly has square porch with fluted Composite columns, dentilled cornice, balustraded balcony with urns; round-headed doorway with panelled pilasters; 1st floor window with a cornice. Flanking bays have ground floor canted bay windows with carved aprons and balustraded parapets, 1st floor windows with pediments. Right return wall has pilasters making a wide middle bay containing at ground floor a pilastered doorway flanked by windows, and at 1st floor a window with carved entablature and segmental pediment, flanked by fielded panels; narrow outer bays have ground floor window and 1st floor coved niche with an urn on a semi-circular table. Left return wall (to garden) has 3 windows each floor: offset left of centre a canted bay window and a 1st floor window with a pediment, similar pedimented windows at ground floor, and cornices to the other 1st floor windows; carved plinth below ground floor windows. Interior: dog-legged staircase with semi-circular winding, ornamental iron balusters; very elaborate moulded plaster cornice and ceiling rose in front right ground floor room (originally dining room).
Listing NGR: SD8629421981
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185617
- 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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