Offices of Dronsfield and Company
Offices of Dronsfield and Company, Ashton Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292386
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Offices of Dronsfield and Company
- Statutory Address:
- Offices of Dronsfield and Company, Ashton Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292386
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Offices of Dronsfield and Company
- Statutory Address 1:
- Offices of Dronsfield and Company, Ashton 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:
- Offices of Dronsfield and Company, Ashton Road
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 92398 04506
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13/01/2021 to correct the spelling of a person's name, to remove superfluous source details from the text and reformat the text to current standards
SD90SW
780-1/3/13
OLDHAM
ASHTON ROAD
Offices of Dronsfield and Company
23/01/73
GV
II
Office building. 1906-1908. By JH Sellers. Polished granite, green glazed brick and flat reinforced concrete roof. Two storeys, symmetrically planned with two three-window ranges each side of central entrance tower. Lower storey of polished granite, the central entrance porch with low upper storey containing round-arched window projecting from recessed tower, which has a round-arched window in first floor, and stands clear of the eaves line, clasped by paired stacks. Three iron framed windows on each floor each side of this central feature, all sixteen-paned with slim central mullion. Upper windows each side set in shallow concave panelled granite architraves.
Listing NGR: SD9239804506
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388873
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Manchester City Art Gallery, , Partnership in Style. Edgar Wood and J.Henry Sellers, (1975)
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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