Workshop Building Immediately to East of Hartford Works
WORKSHOP BUILDING IMMEDIATELY TO EAST OF HARTFORD WORKS, PARSONS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201684
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Workshop Building Immediately to East of Hartford Works
- Statutory Address:
- WORKSHOP BUILDING IMMEDIATELY TO EAST OF HARTFORD WORKS, PARSONS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201684
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Workshop Building Immediately to East of Hartford Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- WORKSHOP BUILDING IMMEDIATELY TO EAST OF HARTFORD WORKS, PARSONS 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:
- WORKSHOP BUILDING IMMEDIATELY TO EAST OF HARTFORD WORKS, PARSONS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 91421 04684
Details
OLDHAM
SD90SW PARSONS STREET (OFF) 780-1/3/61 (North side) 20/04/88 Workshop building immediately to east of Hartford Works
GV II
Workshops now partially occupied as industrial units. c1870. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate and corrugated asbestos roof. 3 storeys, 16-window range. Central entrance in east elevation in rusticated stone segmental arch with entablature. Some additional doors in former windows to ground floor. Windows throughout have round-arched gauged brick heads with stone keys and springers, and stone sills. Mostly fixed light casements with glazing bars. Some alterations to glazing, and lowering of sills in upper storey. Brick modillion eaves course and stone cornice. Pedimented gable returns, with oculus in south gable. Right-hand section of building has deeper plan, with flat ridge surmounted by seven gabled roof lights. The building was probably built to service the Oxford Mill (now Hartford Works, Suthers Street, q.v.) and taken over by Platt Bros. c1900, when it was used as tool-fitting workshops. (Gurr, D. and Hunt, J.: The Cotton Mills of Oldham: Oldham: 1985-).
Listing NGR: SD9142104684
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388925
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gurr, Duncan, Hunt, , The Cotton Mills of Oldham, (1989)
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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