Ashes Farmhouse

ASHES FARMHOUSE, ASHES LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162425
Date first listed:
23-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:
Ashes Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
ASHES FARMHOUSE, ASHES LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162425
Date first listed:
23-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:
Ashes Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
ASHES FARMHOUSE, ASHES 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ASHES FARMHOUSE, ASHES 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 92526 13118

Details

SD 91 SW MILNROW ASHES LANE (north-east side)

3/74 Ashes - Farmhouse

- II Farmhouse and cottage. Early C17 (deeds from 1625). Roughly dressed stone with slate roof. 3-unit 2-storey plan. 3 and 5-light double-chamfered mullion ground floor windows both have 2 mullions missing and the latter has a hoodmould. The house-part window has been altered and a door inserted under its hoodmould. The original door, between bays 2 and 3, has a flat hood. 3, 2, 3 and 4-light double-chamfered first floor windows with a total of 5 mullions removed. Ridge and gable chimney stacks rebuilt in brick. Coped left gable. The rear has various chamfered mullion and flat-faced mullion windows several mullions having been removed. Interior: Chamfered beams with stepped stops in house-part which has been subdivided. Timber-framed internal walls and tie-beam roof trusses. Datestone in adjacent structure reads "IG 1633" and a grave slab to James Stock, Yeoman, 169? in garden. H. Fishwick, History of Rochdale, 1889.

Listing NGR: SD9252613118

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
213412
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Fishwick, H, History of Rochdale, (1889)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Ashes Farmhouse

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