Birchinley Hall Farmhouse
BIRCHINLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, WILD HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334321
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Birchinley Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BIRCHINLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, WILD HOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334321
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Birchinley Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRCHINLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, WILD HOUSE 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:
- BIRCHINLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, WILD HOUSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 93029 13815
Details
SD 91 SW MILNROW WILD HOUSE LANE (east side) 3/117 24/1/67 Birchinley Hall Farmhouse (formerly listed as Birchinley Hall, - Wild Horse Lane)
G.V. II House. 1619 on door lintel. Hammer-dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof. 3-unit hearth-passage plan with 2 storeys. Bays 1 and 3 project at the front as gabled crosswings. Quoins. Slightly projecting porch in left crosswing has chamfered inner and outer door surrounds and seats. The outer doorway has an elliptical head the lintel having recessed spandrels and an inscription - "ACICI619RKACRB" (Alexander Collinge, Joan Collinge, Robert Kay, Alexander C. and Robert Butterworth). 4, 5 and 4-light double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullion ground floor windows and 3, 3 and 4-light double-chamfered mullion first floor windows (as well as a window inserted in C20). Most windows have hoodmoulds. C20 ridge chimney stack. Similar 1, 2 and 3-light windows to sides and rear including a fire window and a stair light. Dressed chamfered door surround to rear end of cross passage. C20 addition to right return which formerly had a projecting chimney stack. Interior: Inglenook with chamfered bressumer beam on a spere post. Chamfered principal beams with stepped stops. Otherwise the floor and roof structures are c.1985. Fireplaces at ground and first floors with chamfered surrounds. It is possible that there was a second inglenook fireplace at the service end suggested by smoke blackening on wall and possible fire window. H. Fishwick, History of Rochdale, 1889.
Listing NGR: SD9302913815
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439755
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fishwick, H, History of Rochdale, (1889)
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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