AV Roe House
AV ROE HOUSE, 262, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309434
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1981
- List Entry Name:
- AV Roe House
- Statutory Address:
- AV ROE HOUSE, 262, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309434
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1981
- List Entry Name:
- AV Roe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- AV ROE HOUSE, 262, LIVERPOOL 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:
- AV ROE HOUSE, 262, LIVERPOOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 76488 98486
Details
SJ 79 NE,
4/7
ECCLES,
LIVERPOOL ROAD (north side),
No. 262 (A.V. Roe House)
20/8/81
II
House, now offices. Early C19. Flemish bond brick with slate
roof. 3 x 2 bays with two storeys and addition to rear.
Symmetrical elevation with projecting plinth, dentilled box
gutters and a hipped roof with brick chimney stacks. The
central panelled door has a fanlight and an open pediment on
3/4 Doric Columns. Two ground and three first-floor 4-pane sash
windows with stone lintels and sills and a stone surround to
the central first floor window. Similar window openings to
sides, some of which are blind and one of which retains its
original 16-pane sash. Tripartite sash windows to rear
addition on right return. The house was that of James
Nasmyth from (1836-43) who invented the steam hammer in 1842.
Also the birthplace of A. V. Roe (1877-1958) who designed,
built and flew the first British aeroplane in 1908 and was a
key figure in the development of aviation.
Listing NGR: SJ7648898486
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 211940
- 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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