Old Bent House and Bent House Farmhouse
OLD BENT HOUSE AND BENT HOUSE FARMHOUSE, HALIFAX ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1356234
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Old Bent House and Bent House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OLD BENT HOUSE AND BENT HOUSE FARMHOUSE, HALIFAX ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1356234
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Bent House and Bent House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD BENT HOUSE AND BENT HOUSE FARMHOUSE, HALIFAX 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:
- OLD BENT HOUSE AND BENT HOUSE FARMHOUSE, HALIFAX ROAD
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 94624 17012
Details
SD 91 NW LITTLEBOROUGH HALIFAX ROAD (north-west side)
1/28 Old Bent House and Bent House Farmhouse (formerly listed 2/1/67 as Old Bent House)
G.V. II* House. "IMS 1691" (John and Mary Scott) on door and porch lintels but with C19 and C20 additions. Hammer-dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof. 3-unit double-depth plan with 4 bays and 2 storeys. Quoins and projecting plinth. Single-storey porch has moulded door surround, segmental-arched lintel, enriched spandrels and date inscribed above, and a parapet which forms a crude but classically derived entablature. Three 6-light ground floor windows have double-chamfered mullions and hoodmoulds. 4, 4, 2 and 4-light chamfered windows on first floor. Many windows retain original leaded lights and vertical iron bar. Coped gables with kneelers. Chimneys have moulded bands. 2, 3 and 4-light mullioned windows and later sash windows to sides and rear. Later additions to left, later porch to right and a single storey early C18 addition to rear right. Interior: the rear right room (kitchen) has a gable-end door of studded oak with the initials IS carved on it. The room is sheltered by a plank and muntin screen and as well as a C17 well cupboard with carved doors and butterfly hinges has a bolection-moulded fire surround with coved cornice mantel. First floor cupboard with H-hinges and "MS 1692" carved at head. A well-preserved house retaining many of its original fittings. The double-depth plan is of a particularly early date for the house of yeoman farmer. W.J. Smith, "A Place in History", Pennine Magazine, Vol.6, No.3.
Listing NGR: SD9462417012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 213362
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pennine Magazine in Number 3, Vol. 6, ()
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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