Buile Hill
BUILE HILL, ECCLES OLD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386126
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Buile Hill
- Statutory Address:
- BUILE HILL, ECCLES OLD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386126
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Buile Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUILE HILL, ECCLES OLD 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:
- BUILE HILL, ECCLES OLD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 79834 99356
Details
SALFORD
SJ79NE ECCLES OLD ROAD 949-1/3/51 (South side) 18/01/80 Buile Hill (Formerly Listed as: ECCLES OLD ROAD (South side) Buile Hill (Salford Natural History Museum))
II
Mansion, now Salford Mining Museum. 1825-7. By Sir Charles Barry, with upper storey and porte-cochere added c1860 by Walters. Ashlar with hipped Welsh slate roof with central open pavilion with stone balustrade. Restrained classical style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, shallow projecting 2-window wings each side of entrance block with porte-cochere, further 2-window wing recessed to right, and single storey wing originally housing billiard room advanced to right of this. Porte-cochere has 2 fluted Doric columns carrying entablature with triglyph frieze. Tripartite windows above entrance, divided by plain pilasters. 2-pane sash windows throughout, the sills forming continuous band. Garden front similarly disposed, with recessed entrance block, the doorway in plain Doric architrave forming porch running between the slightly advanced wings. These have shallow squared bay windows to ground floor with plain pilasters forming tripartite windows and balustraded parapets. Tripartite windows throughout to this elevation. End wall stack, with front wall stack in right hand wing, and others concealed in the central roof pavilion. INTERIOR: planning obscured by insertion of museum displays, but cantilevered stone staircase with cast-iron balustrading retained in right hand bay.
Listing NGR: SJ7983499356
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471550
- 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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