St Michael's House
ST MICHAEL'S HOUSE, ST MICHAEL'S COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309467
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- St Michael's House
- Statutory Address:
- ST MICHAEL'S HOUSE, ST MICHAEL'S COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309467
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- St Michael's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MICHAEL'S HOUSE, ST MICHAEL'S COURT
- Statutory Address 2:
- ST MICHAEL'S HOUSE, STAMFORD STREET
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:
- ST MICHAEL'S HOUSE, ST MICHAEL'S COURT
- Statutory Address:
- ST MICHAEL'S HOUSE, STAMFORD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ9415199026
Details
SJ 99 NW
4/34
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE
STAMFORD STREET
(south side)
ST. MICHAEL'S COURT
St. Michael's House (former
Registrar's Office)
G.V.
II
Offices. "MDCCCLXlX" (1869) on datestone. Brick with stone
dressings and slate roof. L-shaped plan with 2 storeys (plus
attic and basement storeys) and 6 bays on the principal
elevation. High Victorian Gothic. Rock-faced stone basement
storey with arched window openings. Stone sill and impost
bands and machicolated eaves band below a parapet with blue
header diaper decoration in the brickwork. Bay 4 projects as
a gabled entrance feature having a porch on the ground floor
with colonnettes beneath a pierced stone balcony on the
first floor, 3 arched windows on the first and second floors
the former with quatrefoil and cinquefoil plate tracery and
a multi-foiled opening in the gable which is coped. Other
windows are generally single or paired arched lights with
stone impost blocks and separating columns. Attic storey has
a gabled dormer window to left balanced by a large chimney
feature on the right which is in turn flanked by smaller
gabled dormer windows. Steeply pitched roof with decorative
ridge tiles. Other elevations are treated similarly. Many
internal features remain including panelled doors with
gothic tracery and others with etched glass, a staircase
with turned balusters, plaster cornices and others.
Listing NGR: SJ9415199026
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212683
- 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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