WOOL WALL AT SE 003 068

WOOL WALL AT SE 003 068, HOLLY GROVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268291
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1996
List Entry Name:: WOOL WALL AT SE 003 068
Statutory Address:: WOOL WALL AT SE 003 068, HOLLY GROVE

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Date:: 2006-03-06
Reference:: IOE01/15235/03
Rights:: © Mr Peter Hyde. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268291
Date first listed:: 06-Aug-1996
List Entry Name:: WOOL WALL AT SE 003 068
Statutory Address 1:: WOOL WALL AT SE 003 068, HOLLY GROVE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WOOL WALL AT SE 003 068, HOLLY GROVE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Saddleworth
National Grid Reference:: SE0029406783

Details

SE 00 NW, 780-1/4/10010

SADDLEWORTH, HOLLY GROVE, Dobcross, Wool wall at SE 003 068

II

Wool Wall. Early C19. Rubble sandstone masonry wall of drystone construction. Approx. 50 metres long and 1.7 metres high, aligned north-west/south-east, with near vertical north-east face and sloping, stepped south-west face. Unshaped coping stones, laid on edge. Wool walls were associated with the domestic production of woollen cloth, and were used for the drying of scoured or dyed Wool and scoured cloth.

Listing NGR: SE0030006800

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 461981
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.