Oakley
OAKLEY, GREEN WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084310
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Oakley
- Statutory Address:
- OAKLEY, GREEN WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084310
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Oakley
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAKLEY, GREEN WALK
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:
- OAKLEY, GREEN WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 75570 87056
Details
The following building shall be added: SJ78 NE BOWDON GREEN WALK
458-/7/10011 Oakley
II
House,unoccupied at the time of inspection. Circa 1870,and built for Henry Theodore Gaddum, J.P. (d. 1904) Squared rubble sandstone,laid in thin courses,with ashlar sandstone dressings,coped gables with moulded kneelers, and tall,slender stone stacks with moulded oversailing caps. Welsh slated roof with alternating bands of pointed and squared slates.Restrained Victorian Gothic style. Asymmetrical linear plan,of 2 storeys with attics, arranged around the main central staircase, and of 6 x 2 bays. FRONTAGE TO STREET, with advanced bay to right,in the form of a gabled entrance porch with shouldered outer arched doorway, ribbed vaulted roof and moulded surround to inner doorway. Canted first floor oriel with crenellated parapet above, flanked by slender pinnacles. Single attic window above,set within steeply-pitched gable with finial. 3-bay range to left with tall sash windows to ground floor,and single and coupled sashes above ,below cambered heads. Sill bands and a moulded storey band. 2 gabled dormers with coupled sashes. 2-bay end to service crosswing set further back to left. End bay to right with ground floor bay and shaped gablet above first floor sashes. Contemporary canted timber conservatory to right hand end. GARDEN ELEVATION; Canted 2-storey corner bay to left, a principal pier extended upwards to support a gabled pinnacle which incorporates a gargoyle. Further right,a canted bay with balcony and pierced parapet above. 2-light first floor window above with quatrefoil heads below a blind pointed arch,within which are the initials 'H.G.' INTERIOR ; largely unaltered, with high quality original joinery, including 6 panelled doors within moulded architraves, some with engaged colonnettes, deep,moulded skirtings,sash windows and french doors. There is much moulded plasterwork, including pierced cornice ornamentation. The principal stair has turned newels with both vase and pendant finials, turned balusters on a pierced plinth, and a moulded handrail. The stairwell has a boarded, ribbed and part glazed waggon roof. The house was part of a planned development of substantial houses,the proposals for which were subject to stringent conditions imposed by the landowner,The Earl of Stamford. A substantial, well-detailed and near complete- example of mid-Victorian Gothic domestic architecture within its original setting.
Listing NGR: SJ7557087056
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358733
- 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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