Oak Farmhouse
OAK FARMHOUSE, ALTRINCHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1222266
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Oak Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OAK FARMHOUSE, ALTRINCHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1222266
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Oak Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAK FARMHOUSE, 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:
- OAK FARMHOUSE, 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 83416 83646
Details
SJ 88 SW WILMSLOW FORMER U.D. ALTRINCHAM ROAD (South Side) Styal
1/263 Oak Farmhouse
30/3/1951 GV II*
Farmhouse: early C16 with C17 alterations, late C18 brick facade to south side, additions c.1860 by J.S. Crowther and C20 restoration. Timber-framed with brick and plaster infill, on stone plinth. Brick additions to rear. Kerridge stone-slate roof and 4 brick chimneys with Tudor-style diamond stacks. Long rectangular plan with cross-wing. 2-storey, 4-bay front. Left end is gabled crosswing and shows a full cruck truss with spurs to the wall plates. 3-light casement below, 4-light above partly with original leaded glazing. Timber decoration of roundels and chevroning between the windows. Remainder is in close-studding with middle rail with angle bracing of the wall plate. 2nd bay has 3-light casement below and 2-light above partly with original lattice leaded glazing, the upper one in a gabled dormer with a coving above the window. Door in C19 frame in 3rd bay and 2-light casement in right end bay. Left end has 2-storey, 3-bay brick front with 3-light small-pane casements and later C19 timber-framed porch. 2 portions to rear in orange brick include a former diary and have a verandah on timber posts. Some blue brick diapering and wood mullioned windows. Interior: Cross-wing has 3 full cruck trusses but remainder of interior of C18 and later. Main range also has 3 full cruck trusses. Central ashlar fireplace with candle niches. Main room has inserted C17 floor, chamfered ceiling beams, fire beam and heck post and screen. Room at north end has a panel from part of a grisaille mural showing the winged lion of St Mark.
Listing NGR: SJ8341683646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414384
- 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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