Marsden House
MARSDEN HOUSE, BUXTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319483
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Marsden House
- Statutory Address:
- MARSDEN HOUSE, BUXTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319483
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Marsden House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARSDEN HOUSE, BUXTON ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- MARSDEN HOUSE, HIGH 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:
- MARSDEN HOUSE, BUXTON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- MARSDEN HOUSE, HIGH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockport (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 94616 85289
Details
SJ 98 NW MARPLE BUXTON ROAD (south side, off) High Lane
6/219 Marsden House
GV II
Farmhouse. Early C19 with mid C17 wing. Roughcast red brick, stone slate roof; the C17 part is coursed sandstone under cement-tile roof. 2 storeys with cellars and attics, 3-bay front with wing to rear-left and outshut in angle. Irregular additions to rear left include a 2-storey, single-cell Cl7 cottage adjoined by an early C19 outhouse. Entrance front: swept verandah on various wooden posts covers central, 'margin-glazed door and fanlight with radial glazing bars in wooden doorcase with open pediment; flanking canted bay-windows have unequally-hung 20-pane sashes (central sash on left altered). 1st floor: projecting stone sills to 16-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves. Brick stacks to each end and to ridge of wing. Rear: tall stair window with old leaded lights; matching window to ground-floor on right. Early C19 outhouse near rear door has exposed brickwork and door on left of a 2-light horizontally-sliding sash to each floor. To its rear is the C17 part having blocked 4-light double-chamfered mullion windows to each floor on the north gable and similar windows on east side of 5 and 3 lights which retain old leaded lights and iron window bars. Interior: main house has decorative tiling to hall floor and 6-panel doors in corniced wooden architraves; open segmental- pedimented doorway through to stair hall; staircase with stick balusters and turned newels twinned at the half-landings; ramped handrail. Some plain fireplace sur- rounds. C17 cell has 2 quadrant-moulded beams and some exposed ceiling joists; the ground-floor forms a C19 kitchen with stone flags, stone sink and cast-iron range; C17 ledged, boarded door to 1st floor. Brick addition to left of main house and adjoining embattled wall on right are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: SJ9461685289
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 442204
- 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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