Barn Approximately 10 Metres North of Rowthorne House
BARN APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH OF ROWTHORNE HOUSE, ST WERBURGHS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254630
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Barn Approximately 10 Metres North of Rowthorne House
- Statutory Address:
- BARN APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH OF ROWTHORNE HOUSE, ST WERBURGHS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254630
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Barn Approximately 10 Metres North of Rowthorne House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH OF ROWTHORNE HOUSE, ST WERBURGHS 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:
- BARN APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH OF ROWTHORNE HOUSE, ST WERBURGHS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 82363 93525
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ89SW ST WERBURGH'S ROAD 698-1/8/586 (West side) 31/10/89 Chorlton-Cum-Hardy Barn approx.10 metres north of Rowthorne House
GV II
Barn, now store and garage. Later C18, altered. Hand-made red brick in English garden wall bond (mostly 5+1), with roof of corrugated sheet. L-plan formed by a 3-bay range parallel to the road, with opposed entrances to a central threshing floor, and an integral rear wing behind the 3rd bay. The facade to the road has full-height brick buttreses to the centre bay, which contains a former wagon entrance with segmental-arched wooden lintel (the opening blocked in matching brick); to the left, the 1st bay has a 9-pane window at ground floor, to the right the 3rd bay has a loading door at 1st floor, 2 diamond-pattern breathers and various decorated cast-iron ventilators. Roof hipped at right-hand end. The left gable wall has a loft door approached by external steps, and a small doorway under these. The long right-hand side wall has a recently-inserted garage doorway in the centre, cruciform tie-plates flanking this, fixed windows beyond these, and diamond-pattern breathers on 3 levels. The rear of the main range has (inter alia) a segmental-headed loading doorway in the centre, remains of another to the left, and various breathers and ventilators like the others. Interior: the central (threshing-floor) bay of the main range has a large 2-centred arched opening to the loft in the north bay, which has a diagonal king-post roof truss, and a low rectangular opening to the loft of the wing; this wing has a shallow roof truss with queen struts and upper king-post. One of the few surviving examples of its type and date in the City of Manchester; forms group with Rowthorne House (q.v.), the former farmhouse approx.10 metres south.
Listing NGR: SJ8236393525
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 457624
- 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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