Werneth Lodge
WERNETH LODGE, 38, MANCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218066
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Werneth Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- WERNETH LODGE, 38, MANCHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218066
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Werneth Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- WERNETH LODGE, 38, 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:
- WERNETH LODGE, 38, MANCHESTER ROAD
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 91348 04225
Details
OLDHAM
SD90SW MANCHESTER ROAD 780-1/3/54 (North West side) 23/01/73 No.38 Werneth Lodge (Formerly Listed as: MANCHESTER No.38 Werneth Lodge with coach house at rear)
GV II
House. c1790, but refronted 1874. Brick with painted stone dressings, slate hanging on gables and stone flagged roof. 2 storeys, 3-window range. Central entrance in porch which runs between outer full-height squared bay windows. Shallow segmentally-arched architrave with 6-panelled door. Paired 12-pane sash windows in each bay with wider sashes to first floor, and narrow 12-pane sash over doorway. Moulded wood eaves band. Gable end stacks. Later lower hipped roofed wing recessed to right with inserted window to ground floor and doorway beyond. Single-storeyed early C20 addition to right of this. Small 2-storeyed extension to rear, with art-deco leaded glass to windows. INTERIOR: considerable traces of original decorative scheme survive, together with some early C20 re-interpretations. Entrance hall with reeded archway to stairs. Panelled doors throughout possibly original. Gilded plaster wall panels in northern room, plasterwork frieze and cornice. Similar frieze in northern first floor room. Other rooms have plaster panelled ceilings which are possibly early C20. Original fireplaces in principal rooms removed during renovation in 1991.
Listing NGR: SD9134804225
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388917
- 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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