Grotton Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn to West
GROTTON HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN TO WEST, PLATTING ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318015
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Grotton Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn to West
- Statutory Address:
- GROTTON HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN TO WEST, PLATTING ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318015
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Grotton Head Farmhouse and Adjoining Barn to West
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROTTON HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN TO WEST, PLATTING 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:
- GROTTON HEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING BARN TO WEST, PLATTING ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Saddleworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 97208 04811
Details
SADDLEWORTH PLATTING ROAD SD 90 SE (west side) 5/232 Grotton Head Farmhouse and adjoining barn - to west G.V. II House and adjoining barn. Barn - "IBM 1678" (Isaac and Mary Buckley) on door lintel, house - "EB 1845" (Edmond Buckley) on datestone. Hammer-dressed stone with graduated stone slate (house) and slate (barn) roofs. Double-depth central- staircase plan house with 2 storeys. The barn adjoins to left having opposed cart entries, shippon to left and C20 addition to right. Central door has re-used lintel dated "MBIB 1656", a chamfered surround and fanlight, and is flanked on either side by 3-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows with a central 1-light window on the first floor. Coped gables and gable chimney stacks. The rear incorporates two 2-light double-chamfered stone mullion windows (one mullion missing) indicating reuse or remodelling of a former building. The barn has stone quoins, a projecting plinth and outshuts to either side of the cart entry. 2 doors (one blocked) to left gable have chamfered surrounds and a dated lintel.Vents on 3 levels to rear and blocked cart entry which has chamfered dressings. C20 roof construction. Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society, Vol.15, No.1, 1985.
Listing NGR: SD9720804811
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212253
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society in Number 1, Vol. 15, (1985)
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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