Almhouses in St Mary's Churchyard North of the Church

ALMHOUSES IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD NORTH OF THE CHURCH, MONKS LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1138567
Date first listed:
12-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Almhouses in St Mary's Churchyard North of the Church
Statutory Address:
ALMHOUSES IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD NORTH OF THE CHURCH, MONKS LANE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1138567
Date first listed:
12-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Almhouses in St Mary's Churchyard North of the Church
Statutory Address 1:
ALMHOUSES IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD NORTH OF THE CHURCH, MONKS LANE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ALMHOUSES IN ST MARY'S CHURCHYARD NORTH OF THE CHURCH, MONKS LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Burland and Acton
National Grid Reference:
SJ 63161 53131

Details

ACTON C.P. MONKS LANE SJ 65 SW 4/17 Almshouses in St.Mary's Churchyard north of the Church 12 January 1967 GV II

Pair of almshouses, early C17. Red brick with stone dressing and tiled roof. Single storey and attic, 2 bays each. Rusticated quoins. Oak boarded doors in rusticated stone dressed openings with flat arches and keystones. Stone dressed 2-light mullion windows with leaded casements, now blocked. Attic windows, in gables only, are two- light leaded casements in oak frames. There are small, stone dressed, single light windows at ground level in the gables and a single 2-light mullion window per house at the rear (north). Stone gable coping with kneelers and stone ridge. Gable-end stacks.

Listing NGR: SJ6316153131

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Legacy System number:
56929
Legacy System:
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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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