Fence Almshouses
FENCE ALMSHOUSES, BUXTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292046
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Fence Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- FENCE ALMSHOUSES, BUXTON ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-09-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/01616/09
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292046
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Fence Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- FENCE ALMSHOUSES, BUXTON 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:
- FENCE ALMSHOUSES, BUXTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Macclesfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 92152 73609
Details
MACCLESFIELD
SJ9273 BUXTON ROAD 886-1/7/23 (South side) 17/03/77 Fence Almshouses
GV II
Almshouses. Dated 1895. Red brick with stone dressings and mock timbering. Stone-flagged roof. Single-storeyed, 2 windows each side of central entrance. Wide segmental moulded stone archway to centre with raised gable jettied out above, containing tall 3-light mullioned and transomed window surmounted by coved half-timbered gable. Central entrance feature flanked by 2 prominent windows which cut the coved eaves line and are surmounted by coved half-timbered dormer gables. Dated with inscription 'Fence Almshouses TUB FDB' below the central window. Weather vane surmounts the central gable. Axial stacks. Forms a group with Fence House (qv) and Nos 88-92 Buxton Road (qv).
Listing NGR: SJ9215273609
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390923
- 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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