Sun Green Sun Green Farmhouse

SUN GREEN FARMHOUSE, BESOM LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1356464
Date first listed:
06-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
Sun Green Sun Green Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
SUN GREEN FARMHOUSE, BESOM LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1356464
Date first listed:
06-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
Sun Green Sun Green Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
SUN GREEN FARMHOUSE, BESOM LANE
Statutory Address 2:
SUN GREEN, 2 AND 3, BESOM 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SUN GREEN FARMHOUSE, BESOM LANE
Statutory Address:
SUN GREEN, 2 AND 3, BESOM LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 98392 99698

Details

SJ 99 NE STALYBRIDGE BESOM LANE (east side)

4/138 Nos. 2 and 3 Sun Green (Sun Green - Farmhouse)

- II

Farmhouse and cottage. Mid C18. Hammer-dressed stone with slate roof and brick stacks. The farmhouse (no.2) is double- depth with a central staircase and 2 storeys; the cottage is one bay wide with 2 storeys. Farmhouse has a central door and a projecting plinth. 3 and 5-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows on either side of the door have each lost 2 mullions. A later window is inserted above the door and has a 4 and 5-light flat-faced stone mullion window to either side. The cottage has a door to left, and a 5-light recessed flat-faced mullion window to each floor. 2 brick ridge chimney stacks. Similar 2 and 3-light gable windows. The right gable is heavily buttressed.

Listing NGR: SJ9839299698

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
212599
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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