Arnfield Tower
ARNFIELD TOWER, MANCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203906
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Arnfield Tower
- Statutory Address:
- ARNFIELD TOWER, MANCHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203906
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Arnfield Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARNFIELD TOWER, MANCHESTER 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:
- ARNFIELD TOWER, MANCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- High Peak (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tintwistle
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 01300 97078
Details
SK 09 NW PARISH OF TINTWISTLE MANCHESTER ROAD 4/26 (North Side) Arnfield Tower II
House, c 1875. Finely coursed gritstone with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with ridge cresting. Tower roof with bands of fishscale slates and four lucarnes. Stone coped shaped gables (no two alike) with finials. Two gable end stacks and two eaves stacks, one with external stack rising from the ground and one rising from a gable above a window. Double pile plan with projecting tower to the west. Two storeys plus the tower. Asymmetrical elevations. East elevation has a central porch with shallow pointed arch and dripmould with headstops beneath a shaped gable. To the left a slightly advanced gabled bay with angle quoins. Castellated canted bay window to ground floor, the centre light with mullion and transom. First floor window with mullion and transom, horizontal drip mould above with stops. Shallow pitched pointed arched single light window in the gable. Above the porch a tall single light window with transom. To the right a 3-light mullioned and transomed window to the ground floor, a similar but smaller one above and a single light dormer window above with shaped gable. The west tower is square on plan but in its upper parts with the angles chamfered and with stops, rising to four shaped gables. Recessed pyramidal roof with a whimsical gableted chimney stack squeezed into the south-west corner. Flat elongated hexagonal windows at half height, and a C19 wooden porch abutting at the base. The house was built by the Manchester Corporation.
Listing NGR: SK0130097078
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82170
- 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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