Union Buildings
UNION BUILDINGS, 1, THE ROCK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318009
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Union Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- UNION BUILDINGS, 1, THE ROCK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318009
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Union Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNION BUILDINGS, 1, THE ROCK
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:
- UNION BUILDINGS, 1, THE ROCK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bury (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 80472 10856
Details
SD 8010 NW,
1/69
THE ROCK,
No 1 (Union Buildings)
26.03.75
II
Dated 1874. Neo-medieval. Red brick with stone dressings and mock timbering with plastered infill (especially to top stages). Corner site. Irregular.
Four storeys. Gable front of three bays and 5-bay left-hand return front. Windows generally have straight heads on ground floor, obtusely pointed heads (and ornamental sill-grilles) on first floor, pointed heads and drip moulds on second floor and multiple mullioned lights on top floor (together with small 4-light roundels). Central window on first floor is rectangular oriel, as are two windows on second and third floors of return front, which has elaborate carving over bi-partite entry, incorporating dated coat of arms, surmounted by roundel on first floor under gabled canopy of pierced bargeboards on corbels. Circular corner chimney rising from foliate capital on shaft running towards ground. Steep tiled roof.
Listing NGR: SD8047210856
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 210744
- 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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