Rose Cottage, Southside and Towersyard Farm
Rose Cottage, Southside and Towersyard Farm, Towers Road, Poynton, Stockport, SK12 1DE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232304
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Rose Cottage, Southside and Towersyard Farm
- Statutory Address:
- Rose Cottage, Southside and Towersyard Farm, Towers Road, Poynton, Stockport, SK12 1DE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232304
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Rose Cottage, Southside and Towersyard Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- Rose Cottage, Southside and Towersyard Farm, Towers Road, Poynton, Stockport, SK12 1DE
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:
- Rose Cottage, Southside and Towersyard Farm, Towers Road, Poynton, Stockport, SK12 1DE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poynton with Worth
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 92966 84039
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/01/2019
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POYNTON-WITH-WORTH CP
TOWERS ROAD (East Side)
Rose Cottage, Southside and Towersyard Farm
(Formerly listed as Southside and Rose Cottage)
II
Formerly colliery offices and cottage, now three houses: dated 1846 for Fifth Lord Vernon. English garden wall bond, Poynton red brick, some painted sandstone dressings. Welsh slate roof and four brick chimneys. The offices have an L-shaped plan are one storey with a six-bay front. Windows, are recessed under semi-circular, gauged and rubbed brick heads and are sashes with radial glazing bars and marginal lights (left end bay altered). Right end bay projects under stone-coped, dentilated gable. Flat, wedged stone head with date over four-panelled door with some studding and three ornate hinges. Cottage is attached to left. Two storey, symmetrical, three bay front, with two chimneys. Sixteen-pane sashes under wedged and cambered gauged and rubbed brick heads. Framed and boarded door under soldier arch of headers.
For details of Towers Yard and its place in the incline system see Ashmore,1982, 54.
Listing NGR: SJ9290584072
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407648
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ashmore, O, The Industrial Archaeology of North West England, (1982), 54
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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