TOWN HEAD HOUSE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, TOWN HEAD OFFICES

TOWN HEAD HOUSE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, TOWN HEAD OFFICES, JOHN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1084282
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: TOWN HEAD HOUSE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, TOWN HEAD OFFICES
Statutory Address:: TOWN HEAD HOUSE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, TOWN HEAD OFFICES, JOHN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1084282
Date first listed:: 12-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: TOWN HEAD HOUSE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, TOWN HEAD OFFICES
Statutory Address 1:: TOWN HEAD HOUSE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, TOWN HEAD OFFICES, JOHN STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:: TOWN HEAD HOUSE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, TOWN HEAD OFFICES, JOHN STREET

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 89900 13658

Details

SD 8913 NE ROCHDALE JOHN STREET (west side) 10/73 Town Head House Dept. of Social Services, Town Head Offices (rear section only)

II

House, now offices. Early C19. Brick with stone dressings and C20 roof covering. 2 rooms wide by 3 rooms deep with central entrance and staircase. 3-bay elevation with bracketed gable. 2 storeys plus attic storey. Door has attached Doric columns, cast iron fanlight and open pediment. Stone plinth and first floor banding course which runs round the entire building. Windows have stone sills and lintels which may be replacements for flat brick arches and stone keystones which are still to be found on the side elevations. Tall central first floor window has stone architrave, consoles cornice and marginal glazing bars. Re- built 2-storey canted bay window to left elevation and large five-sided, two-storey bay to right, with pyramidal roof and small gablet.

Listing NGR: SD8990013658

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Legacy System number:: 358901
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.