Rough Bank Farmhouse
ROUGH BANK FARMHOUSE, ROUGH BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1240266
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Rough Bank Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROUGH BANK FARMHOUSE, ROUGH BANK
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05092/06
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1240266
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rough Bank Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROUGH BANK FARMHOUSE, ROUGH BANK
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:
- ROUGH BANK FARMHOUSE, ROUGH BANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 94718 12318
Details
SD 91 SW MILNROW ROUGH BANK New Hey 3/106 Rough Bank Farmhouse (formerly listed under Huddersfield 24/1/67 Road)
G.V. II* Farmhouse. 1607 on door lintel. Squared rubble with slate roof. 3-unit plan with 2 storeys. Quoins. Gabled porch between bays 2 and 3 has a chamfered door surround with elliptical head and dated lintel. The inner door has a heavy timber frame with ogee-arched lintel. 3, 4 and 3-light double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds (the latter with one mullion missing). Three 3- light first floor windows and a small 1-light stair window. Coped gables with kneelers. Ridge and gable chimney stacks, projecting on the left gable, with diagonally set shafts. C19 window in right return. 2-light fire window, 4-light house-part window and 3 smaller openings to rear. Interior: Chamfered floor beams with stepped stops. Chamfered bressumer beam and spere post with ogee stops. Two small wall cupboards remain within the ingleook which has a fire window and a timber heck. Two boarded doors with pegged ledges and ogee-arched lintels give access to heated parlour and buttery/pantry. Steps from the latter lead down to a vaulted cellar of later date. Through-purlin roof with collar and tie-beam truss. One other original door survives on the first floor. Early outbuildings adjoin the left gable-end and a wall surrounds the front enclosure, also of an early date. A well preserved and early survival of a Yeoman farmer's house. H. Fishwick, History of Rochdale, 1889.
Listing NGR: SD9471812318
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438410
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fishwick, H, History of Rochdale, (1889)
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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