St Chads House
ST CHADS HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163181
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- St Chads House
- Statutory Address:
- ST CHADS HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163181
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- St Chads House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST CHADS HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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:
- ST CHADS HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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 99675 05718
Details
SADDLEWORTH HIGH STREET SD 9905 (west side) Uppermill 8/130 St. Chad's - House G.V. II House, now library. 1798 with facade of mid C19 and with C20 additions. Facade by G. Shaw. Watershot hammer-dressed stone with ashlar facade and graduated stone slate roof. Single- depth 2-storey plan with a central staircase and total of 6 bays. Symmetrical elevation with projecting plinth, raised corners, sill bands and eaves cornice. Central doorway has moulded surround with ivy motifs, dropped tracery, a carved overpanel and a moulded hood. The door has linen-fold panelling and pierced upper panels. Two mullion and transom windows on either side have hoodmoulds with carved stops. Five 2-light first floor windows and 5 gables above the cornice the end 2 having coped gables, finials and cusped lights. Bay 6 is lower, has raised quoins, sill bands, corbelled eaves cornice and castellations. 5-light mullion and transom ground floor window, 4-light double-chamfered mullion window on first floor. 5 and 2-light mullion windows to rear and sides, some recessed flat-faced, some double- chamfered cavetto-moulded. Dated door lintels include "ISMS 1685" (reused) and one referring to a former "wood house" and "GS 1593". Interior has some fine early C17 timberwork and a C19 staircase with acorn drops and inter-twined balusters. George Shaw - Architect (1810-1876) designed many local churches and houses. He lived at (and largely rebuilt) St. Chad's House, and accumulated or created architectural antiquities many of which survive in the garden.
Listing NGR: SD9967505718
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212144
- 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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