Bredbury House
87, HIGHER BENTS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259969
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bredbury House
- Statutory Address:
- 87, HIGHER BENTS LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259969
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bredbury House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 87, HIGHER BENTS LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- BREDBURY HOUSE, 85, HIGHER BENTS LANE
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:
- 87, HIGHER BENTS LANE
- Statutory Address:
- BREDBURY HOUSE, 85, HIGHER BENTS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockport (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 93094 91097
Details
SJ 99 SW WERNETH HIGHER BENTS LANE (east side) Bredbury 1/212 Nos. 85 (Bredbury House) - and 87
- II
House, now funeral directors, and adjoining cottage. Early C19. Coursed rubble with graduated stone slate roof and brick stacks. Double-depth central-staircase plan of 3 bays and 2 storeys (plus attic) with the adjoining one-bay cottage. Central C20 6-panel door and fanlight has a Roman Ionic pediment and columns with an enriched frieze. 2 ground floor and 3 first floor windows with wedge lintels and sills and C20 replacement 12-pane casements. Gable stacks. The left gable has 5 windows 3 of which are blocked; the rear has an arched stair window. The cottage is rendered and is of a later date. It has a later porch and a sash window on each floor.
Listing NGR: SJ9309491097
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 442050
- 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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