Fairbanks Farmhouse and Cottages
FAIRBANKS FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGES, LEE SIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356390
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Fairbanks Farmhouse and Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- FAIRBANKS FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGES, LEE SIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356390
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Fairbanks Farmhouse and Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIRBANKS FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGES, LEE SIDE
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:
- FAIRBANKS FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGES, LEE SIDE
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 00814 07473
Details
SADDLEWORTH LEE SIDE SE 00 NW (east side) Lee Cross 4/196 Fairbanks Farmhouse and - Cottages G.V. II House and 2 cottages. Early/mid C18. Hammer-dressed watershot stone with graduated stone slate roof. Double- depth house of 3 storeys and 3 bays with a 3-bay 3-storey wing to rear left of late C18 date. Blocked door between bays 1 and 2 with dressed surround. 4, 4 and 6-light ground floor windows, three 4-light first floor windows and 3, 3 and 4-light second floor windows. All have recessed cavetto- moulded stone mullion windows. The top storey appears to have been added, probably in the late C18, and reuses earlier windows. 3 rendered ridge chimney stacks. Square-cut door surround to right gable. The wing to rear, itself built in 2 phases, generally has a 3-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion window to each bay on each floor. Some windows retain the original leaded panes. Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society, Vol.2, No.3, 1972.
Listing NGR: SE0081407473
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212213
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society in Number 3, 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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