Alders Farmhouse

ALDERS FARMHOUSE, ALT LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201705
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:
Alders Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
ALDERS FARMHOUSE, ALT LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201705
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1973
Date of most recent amendment:
08-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Alders Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
ALDERS FARMHOUSE, ALT 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:
ALDERS FARMHOUSE, ALT LANE

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 94422 02869

Details

OLDHAM

SD90SW ALT LANE 780-1/3/9 (South side) 23/01/73 Alders Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: ALT LANE Alders Farmhouse with attached buildings)

GV II

Farmhouse. Dated 1734 but with possible earlier core. Coursed and squared sandstone rubble with stone flagged roof. 2 storeys, main range with cross wing, 2 principal units in main range with opposed front and rear entrances against stack. Main front faces away from road. Wide gable to left, with wide window (probably once mullioned) in plain stone architrave to ground floor, mullioned window above. 2 windows to left of entrance, one a wide 2-light mullioned window in which further mullions have possibly been removed. Similar window to right of doorway. Low 3-light mullioned window above, and a further casement window, the original mullion possibly removed. Date stone over rear doorway, facing street, with initials I.A. 3 stone mullioned windows each of 3 lights in rear elevation, and a single-storeyed wing added to the right of the doorway. Two axial stacks. Adjoining the house on the east side is the present dairy, once in use as stables, but possibly originally domestic and perhaps incorporating the oldest part of the complex. Low 2 storeys, single window range to front, but with wide gabled wing to rear. 3-light mullioned window to ground floor, and traces of blocked loft entry over.

Listing NGR: SD9442202869

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
388870
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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