The Orchards
42, FAIRFIELD SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163809
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Orchards
- Statutory Address:
- 42, FAIRFIELD SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163809
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Orchards
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42, FAIRFIELD SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE ORCHARDS, 41, FAIRFIELD SQUARE
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:
- 42, FAIRFIELD SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- THE ORCHARDS, 41, FAIRFIELD SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 90070 97693
Details
DROYLSDEN FAIRFIELD SQUARE SJ 99 NW
4/82 Nos. 41 (The Orchards) and 42 (formerly listed as Nos 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 17/11/66 47, 48, 49)
G.V. II
2 houses. Late C18. Header bond brick with slate roof. Double-depth plan with a total of 4 bays and 3 storeys. No. 42 has an off-centre 4-panel door with overlight, architrave and flat hood. Two tripartite sash windows with cambered brick arches on ground and first floors and 2 small 4-pane sash windows on second floor. Ridge chimney stack. Eaves cornice. The front of No. 41 was completely rebuilt in C19 to accommodate a change in floor levels making 2 floors instead of 3. It has 4 sash windows with stone sills, flat brick arches and no glazing bars and is now entered in the gable-end. The 6-pane door has pilasters and a radial fanlight. Also in the gable-end are four 12-pane sash windows (2 with glazing bars removed). Gable chimney stack.
Listing NGR: SJ9007097693
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212738
- 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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