GATEWAY TO FORMER BLIND WORKSHOPS

GATEWAY TO FORMER BLIND WORKSHOPS, FREDERICK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282547
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY TO FORMER BLIND WORKSHOPS
Statutory Address:: GATEWAY TO FORMER BLIND WORKSHOPS, FREDERICK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282547
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY TO FORMER BLIND WORKSHOPS
Statutory Address 1:: GATEWAY TO FORMER BLIND WORKSHOPS, FREDERICK STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:: GATEWAY TO FORMER BLIND WORKSHOPS, FREDERICK STREET

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

District:: Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 91516 04133

Details

OLDHAM

SD9104SE FREDERICK STREET 780-1/7/31 (North East side) 23/01/73 Gateway to Former Blind Workshops

GV II

Gateway to former Blind Workshops, possibly originally to coach-house yard of Werneth Park. c1870. Brick with stone dressings. Wide central gateway with overarch and concave flanking walls. Terminal piers to walls are brick with stone bands and stepped pyramidal caps. Main gate piers also brick with stone bands and scroll mouldings carrying stilted arch with stone voussoirs and heavy key. Arch is surmounted by a pediment with crest in roundel and spiked ball finial.

Listing NGR: SD9151604133

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Legacy System number:: 388894
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.