Boots Cottage, Bank Top
BOOTS COTTAGE, BANK TOP, RUNNING HILL GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317939
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Boots Cottage, Bank Top
- Statutory Address:
- BOOTS COTTAGE, BANK TOP, RUNNING HILL GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317939
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Boots Cottage, Bank Top
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOOTS COTTAGE, BANK TOP, RUNNING HILL GATE
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:
- BOOTS COTTAGE, BANK TOP, RUNNING HILL GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Saddleworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 00765 06256
Details
SADDLEWORTH RUNNING HILL GATE SE 00 NW (north side) 4/253 Boots Cottage, Bank Top (formerly listed under Gellfield 19/6/67 Lane) G.V. II House, now garage. Lintel dated "1633". Hammer-dressed stone, coursed rubble and watershot stone with graduated stone slate roof. 2-bay single-depth house with 2 storeys and later barn added to left. Quoins. Door to right the lintel having a double-quirked bead and carved date. 2 garage doors are inserted to left. Two 3-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows to first foor. Gable chimney stack rebuilt in brick. Barn has cart entry with massive stone lintel, door to left, quoins and winnowing door to rear. 2 blocked windows to gable. Remains of 2-light double-chamfered mullion window and a 2-light flat-faced mullion window on rear. Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society, Vol.3, No.1, 1973.
Listing NGR: SE0076506256
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212276
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society in Number 1, Vol. 3, (1973)
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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