Longcroft
Longcroft, Marshlands, Diggle, OL3 5LQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356411
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Longcroft
- Statutory Address:
- Longcroft, Marshlands, Diggle, OL3 5LQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356411
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Longcroft
- Statutory Address 1:
- Longcroft, Marshlands, Diggle, OL3 5LQ
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:
- Longcroft, Marshlands, Diggle, OL3 5LQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Saddleworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 99874 07362
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/09/2019
SD 90 NE
3/289
SADDLEWORTH
DIGGLE
MARSHLANDS
Longcroft
(Formerly listed as Ambrose Cottage and adjoining barn, STANDEDGE ROAD)
GV
II
Former house and adjoining barn. Mid C18 and perhaps earlier. Watershot hammer-dressed stone and squared rubble with graduated stone slate and slate roof. A single-depth two storey house which was made double-depth and three storey probably in the later C18. Door with square-cut stone surround. Three-light ground floor window and four-light first and second floor windows all with recessed cavetto-moulded mullions. Gable-end chimney stacks one of which is rendered. Central door in gable with square-cut surround as well as one- and two-light windows and a small brick lean-to extension. The other gable has blocked windows. The rear has a similar door and three-, six- and four-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows with king mullions.
The former barn predates the house; its roof runs at right angles to the house and it has a small single storey addition adjoined to the front. Recessed flat-faced mullion window openings and two blocked double-chamfered lights at attic level in the gable.
Bulletin of the Saddlworth Historical Society, Vol.3, No.3, 1973.
Listing NGR: SD9987407362
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212313
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society in Number 3, Vol. 3, (1973)
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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