Pinfold Farmhouse
PINFOLD FARMHOUSE, KNOWL TOP LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318184
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Pinfold Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PINFOLD FARMHOUSE, KNOWL TOP LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318184
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Pinfold Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PINFOLD FARMHOUSE, KNOWL TOP LANE
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:
- PINFOLD FARMHOUSE, KNOWL TOP LANE
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 00507 05062
Details
SADDLEWORTH KNOWL TOP LANE SE 00 NW (west side) 4/190 Pinfold Farmhouse - G.V. II Farmhouse. Partly early C17 but with successive extension and rebuilding of the early and late C18. Dressed stone and hammer-dressed watershot stone with graduated stone slate roof. Single-depth plan with 3 storeys and 3 bays with lean- to extensions to right gable and front right and left. Bay 3 incorporates the earliest work retaining a 4-light double- chamfered stone mullion window (2 mullions missing) and hoodmould with upturned ends. Bay 2,which is later,also retains a 2-light double-chamfered mullion window adjacent to an inserted C18 door. Bay 1, again later, was probably added in late C18 when the loom workshop was added to the top floors of bays 2 and 3. Other openings are 6, 10 and 13- light recessed flat-faced mullion windows and 2 blocked taking-in doors. 2 ridge chimney stacks, coped gables and kneelers. The rear which also shows signs of various periods of construction has 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10-light windows as above. Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society, Vol.2, No.1, 1972.
Listing NGR: SE0050705062
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212207
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society in Number 1, Vol. 2, (1972)
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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