SCHOFIELD FARM , THE THREE OWLS BIRD SANCTUARY

SCHOFIELD FARM, 25, WOLSTENHOLME FOLD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1084261
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: SCHOFIELD FARM , THE THREE OWLS BIRD SANCTUARY
Statutory Address:: SCHOFIELD FARM, 25, WOLSTENHOLME FOLD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1084261
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: SCHOFIELD FARM , THE THREE OWLS BIRD SANCTUARY
Statutory Address 1:: SCHOFIELD FARM, 25, WOLSTENHOLME FOLD
Statutory Address 2:: THE THREE OWLS BIRD SANCTUARY, WOLSTENHOLME FOLD

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:: SCHOFIELD FARM, 25, WOLSTENHOLME FOLD
Statutory Address:: THE THREE OWLS BIRD SANCTUARY, WOLSTENHOLME FOLD

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:: SD8548314323

Details

SD 81 SE 6/123

ROCHDALE WOLSTENHOLME FOLD (east side) No. 25 (Schofield Farm) (The Three Owls Bird Sanctuary)

G.V. II

Farmhouse and adjoining barn, now bird sanctuary. Mid C17 and later. Coursed stone with stone slate roof and brick stacks. 2-unit, 2-storey plan with barn adjoining at rear. 2-bay elevation, with stone quoins. The entrance which was to the extreme left has been blocked in and a central entrance formed. 1 double chamfered window opening with hoodmould is partly blocked by the door and is extended to the left at a later date, another, formerly of 3-lights has no mullions remaining. The eaves have at some stage been raised to accommodate a 10-light "weaver's window" (although 4 lights are blocked in) with flat-faced mullions. Gable stacks and one 2-arched-light double-chamfered window at rear. The barn has a semi-circular cart entrance with a door opening to either side.

Listing NGR: SD8548314323

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Legacy System number:: 358954
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.