MOUNT FARM COTTAGE NUNNERY COTTAGE

MOUNT FARM COTTAGE, 170, ORRELL ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1228431
Date first listed:: 10-May-1988
List Entry Name:: MOUNT FARM COTTAGE NUNNERY COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: MOUNT FARM COTTAGE, 170, ORRELL ROAD

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Date:: 2001-06-30
Reference:: IOE01/04240/35
Rights:: © Mr Peter Sargeant. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1228431
Date first listed:: 10-May-1988
List Entry Name:: MOUNT FARM COTTAGE NUNNERY COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: MOUNT FARM COTTAGE, 170, ORRELL ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: NUNNERY COTTAGE, 170, ORRELL ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MOUNT FARM COTTAGE, 170, ORRELL ROAD
Statutory Address:: NUNNERY COTTAGE, 170, ORRELL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 53700 04999

Details

ORRELL ORRELL ROAD SD 50 NW SD 50 SW (north side) 4/102 No. 170 8/102 (Nunnery Cottage) - and Mount Farm Cottage G.V. II 2 houses. Early C19 with part of C17 and C20 extensions. Datestone to rear garden wall reads: "PEP/1652". Dressed stone with slate roofs and felted roof, possibly over stone slate. Eastern part forms Nunnery Cottage and is early C19. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Ashlar base and cornice. Windows have wedge lintels, and 3-light small-paned casements, the upper panes with round-headed Y-tracery glazing; 2-light window over entrance. Round-headed entrance has archivolt with key and fanlight with intersecting glazing bars; C20 door. Gable-end brick stacks. Left return has sash with glazing bars and 1st floor horizontally sliding sash. Western part forms Mount Farm Cottage. South facade has 7-light double- chamfered-mullioned window with drip stone to ground floor; lst floor has similar 5-light window and casement; plain entrance. Brick ridge stack with diaper. Left return rebuilt; rear extension. Interior has chamfered beams and fireplace bressumer.

Listing NGR: SD5370004999

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Legacy System number:: 403039
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.