Farm Fold Cottages
FARM FOLD COTTAGES, 5, 6 AND 8, ALTRINCHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222199
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Farm Fold Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- FARM FOLD COTTAGES, 5, 6 AND 8, ALTRINCHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222199
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Farm Fold Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARM FOLD COTTAGES, 5, 6 AND 8, ALTRINCHAM 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:
- FARM FOLD COTTAGES, 5, 6 AND 8, ALTRINCHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Styal
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 83635 83487
Details
WILMSLOW FORMER UD ALTRINCHAM ROAD (South Side)
1/241 Styal
Formerly hay barn, later 6 mill workers cottages, now 4 houses ...
Nos 5, 6, 7 and 8 Farm Fold Cottages
The above item numbers and description shall be amended to read:
Nos 5, 6 and 8 Farm Fold Cottages
Incorporating former No 7
Formerly hay barn, later 6 Mill Workers Cottages, now 3 houses .....
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SJ 88 SW WILMSLOW FORMER U.D. ALTRINCHAM ROAD (South Side) Styal
1/241 Nos.5, 6, 7 and 8 Farm Fold Cottages.
6/3/1975
GV II
Formerly hay barn, later 6 mill workers cottages, now 4 houses, C18 with late C18 alterations to cottages for Samuel Greg. C20 restoration. English garden wall bond red brick. Welsh slate roof and 2 brick chimneys. Rectangular plan with 2 cottages added to rear. 2-storey, 8-bay south front. Cambered brick heads to 4 restored 2-light small pane iron casements and 4 half glazed doors below. Flat heads to 4 similar windows above. It is possible to see the piers of the former hay barn and the Gothick arch in the west gable. Each gable has a door and windows to cottages at rear.
The most obvious example of the first phase of development when Samuel Grey converted existing farmbuildings to mill workers cottages.
Listing NGR: SJ8363583487
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414116
- 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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