Former Farmhouse West of Whittaker Farmhouse
FORMER FARMHOUSE WEST OF WHITTAKER FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309627
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Former Farmhouse West of Whittaker Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER FARMHOUSE WEST OF WHITTAKER FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1309627
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Former Farmhouse West of Whittaker Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER FARMHOUSE WEST OF WHITTAKER FARMHOUSE
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:
- FORMER FARMHOUSE WEST OF WHITTAKER FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 94711 15558
Details
SD 91 NW LITTLEBOROUGH WHITTAKER 1/72 Former farmhouse west of Whittaker - Farmhouse
G.V. II Farmhouse, more recently used as a piggery. Last quarter C17. Dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof. 3-unit 2-storey plan which was extended by 2 bays to right in mid C18 and with parallel ranges at rear in later C18. Quoins and projecting plinth. Gabled single-storey porch between bays 1 and 2 has initials and 1717 scratched on jamb. The original house has 2, 5 and 3-light double-chamfered stone mullion windows with hoodmoulds (the former with mullion removed). Similar 2, 3 and 3-light first floor windows but all with mullions removed. Coped gables with kneelers. The addition to right has 4 and 3-light chamfered mullion windows on each floor and on either side of a gabled porch wing. Two 2-storey ranges added at the rear were probably used as separate dwellings and flank an open lean-to shelter. Interior much altered although the layout and basic structure (including roof) remain.
Listing NGR: SD9471115558
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213409
- 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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