Woodhouse, East Cottage and Attached Cottages
WOODHOUSE, EAST COTTAGE AND ATTACHED COTTAGES, WOODHOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084224
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Woodhouse, East Cottage and Attached Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- WOODHOUSE, EAST COTTAGE AND ATTACHED COTTAGES, WOODHOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084224
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Woodhouse, East Cottage and Attached Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODHOUSE, EAST COTTAGE AND ATTACHED COTTAGES, WOODHOUSE 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:
- WOODHOUSE, EAST COTTAGE AND ATTACHED COTTAGES, WOODHOUSE 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 85909 14920
Details
SD 81 SE ROCHDALE WOODHOUSE LANE
6/126 Woodhouse, East - Cottage and attached cottages G.V. II
House. "W B 1709"(William and Michael Bentley) on door lintel. Coursed rubble with stone dressings and stone slate roof. 3-unit hearth-passage plan with projecting porch of slightly later date, projecting cross-wing to left, a single-storey addition to left and a later 2-storey wing to rear, now being used on 2 cottages. The 2 storey house has double chamfered mullion windows, two of 2 lights to the gabled cross-wing and 3 lights to the other two units of the ground floor; each has a hoodmould. The porch has a coped gabel with kneelers and ball finials. A new door has at some stage been inserted into the house-part when it was used as a separate cottage. The upper floor has two 2-light double chamfered windows to the crosswings, 4-light above the porch, 3 above the hall and 7-light to the right (now 6). Quoins and coped gables with kneelers and ball finials. The chimney stacks have moulded cornices. The added wing to the rear has four flush chamfered 3-light mullioned windows with hoodmoulds only to the ground floor, square- cut monolithic door jambs, ball finials and a central chimney stack.
Listing NGR: SD8590914920
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358957
- 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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