Heys Cottage the Cottage
HEYS COTTAGE, GRAINS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163013
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Heys Cottage the Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HEYS COTTAGE, GRAINS ROAD
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- Date:
- 2006-10-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/15235/35
- Rights:
- © Mr Peter Hyde. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163013
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Heys Cottage the Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEYS COTTAGE, GRAINS ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE COTTAGE, GRAINS ROAD
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:
- HEYS COTTAGE, GRAINS ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, GRAINS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Saddleworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 97702 07992
Details
SADDLEWORTH GRAINS ROAD SD 90 NE (north side) 3/111 Heys Cottage - and The Cottage G.V. II 2 houses. The Cottage - 1616 on datestone but largely dating from late C18, Heys Cottage - "JGJ 1759" (Greaves) on door lintels. Hammer-dressed watershot stone with graduated stone slate roof. The two 2-storey houses back onto each other as parallel ranges. Heys Cottage is 1 bay wide, a 2- storey wing of later date obscuring the original gable entrance with dated lintel. 5 and 3-light recessed flat- faced stone mullion windows, a later window, 2-light gable windows, gable chimney stacks and a C20 porch. The Cottage has a door to right obscured by a later porch, 3 and 4-light ground floor windows and 4, 3 and 4-light first floor windows all with recessed flat-faced stone mullions. Square eaves gutter brackets and gable chimney stacks.
Listing NGR: SD9770207992
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212124
- 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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