Fountain Horse Trough to North of White Hart Inn
FOUNTAIN HORSE TROUGH TO NORTH OF WHITE HART INN, HEYWOOD OLD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245928
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain Horse Trough to North of White Hart Inn
- Statutory Address:
- FOUNTAIN HORSE TROUGH TO NORTH OF WHITE HART INN, HEYWOOD OLD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245928
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain Horse Trough to North of White Hart Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOUNTAIN HORSE TROUGH TO NORTH OF WHITE HART INN, HEYWOOD OLD ROAD
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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:
- FOUNTAIN HORSE TROUGH TO NORTH OF WHITE HART INN, HEYWOOD OLD ROAD
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:
- SD8513707748
Details
SD80NE
335/2/10048
26-JUN-01
HEYWOOD OLD ROAD
(Northwest side)
Fountain Horse Trough to north of White Hart Inn
II
Drinking fountain and horse and dog drinking troughs. 1888, relocated late C20. By Edgar Wood, architect for Messrs W.C. Wood and Bros, textile manufacturers. Ashlar gritstone and red brick. Depressed semi-circular arched structure rising from shallow gabled buttresses. The arch is supported by a square pier, rising from a red brick base, and which passes through the arch centre, the arch head carrying gablets either side of the pier. Moulded flat cap to pier, with small dome finials to corners. Located between the central pier and the outer buttresses are two stone troughs.
HISTORY: The trough was designed to commemorate the completion of a new weaving shed at Messrs. Woods' textile factory, and donated to the people of Birch. It was relocated and repaired of a site close to its original location following a road widening scheme.
Listing NGR: SD8513707748
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487736
- 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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