Higher House
HIGHER HOUSE, MOOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356810
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Higher House
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER HOUSE, MOOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356810
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Higher House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER HOUSE, MOOR 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:
- HIGHER HOUSE, MOOR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bury (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 78184 16682
Details
SD 71 NE,
3/150
MOOR ROAD,
Higher House
GV
II
Early C18. Coursed rubble. Flush quoins. Symmetrical. 2½ storeys. Doorway has
moulded architrave and pulvinated frieze. Castellated, evidently C19 porch. Each
side is a large transom and mullioned window with a total of twelve lights and dripmould
(the left-hand one with leading to upper lights). Above each is a 5-light window
with dripmould. Above porch is a round-arched window, with keystone, impost mouldings
and narrow mullion and transom. Stone eaves gutter. Five casement dormers with hipped
roofs set in stone slab roof. Tall gable chimneys. Slightly lower 2-storey extension
to right is dated "John and Mary/Roster(on(/1820". Beyond is still lower extension,
probably of similar date. Both are similar in build to earlier house, but have tall
square-mullioned windows of two and three lights (later C20 metal casements replacing
mullions in hither extension and a metal balcony, also perhaps C20, fronting the upper
window). Until 1884 the house was the White Hart Inn. Known as Higher House in
distinction to Shoulder of Mutton PH (known as Lower House), with which it shared
disorderly reputation c.1800.
Listing NGR: SD7818416682
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 210705
- 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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