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Windy Nook

A Grade II Listed Building in Lees, Oldham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.5333 / 53°31'59"N

Longitude: -2.0502 / 2°3'0"W

OS Eastings: 396767

OS Northings: 404068

OS Grid: SD967040

Mapcode National: GBR GW3L.X4

Mapcode Global: WHB9C.GGX5

Plus Code: 9C5VGWMX+8W

Entry Name: Windy Nook

Listing Date: 19 June 1967

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1164611

English Heritage Legacy ID: 212349

ID on this website: 101164611

Location: Grotton, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL4

County: Oldham

Civil Parish: Saddleworth

Built-Up Area: Lees

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester

Church of England Parish: Lydgate St Anne

Church of England Diocese: Manchester

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Description


SD 90 SE,
5/323

SADDLEWORTH,
THORNLEY LANE (south side)

No. 1 (Windy Nook)

19/6/67

G.V.

II

House and cottage. "HS 1648" (Henry Shaw) on door lintel the
cottage being added in late C17 or early C18. Squared rubble
with graduated stone slate roof and brick stack. 2-unit
former baffle-entry plan with two storeys and the 1-bay
cottage added to right. Projecting plinth. Door to right
with basket-headed lintel and chamfered surround. The front
is otherwise blind but for a C20 window. The rear has a 2-
light (fire-window) 4-light and 3-light window (each with one
or two mullions removed) on the ground floor and two 3-light
windows on the first floor. All windows are double-chamfered
with cavetto-moulded mullions. Flat-faced and double-
chamfered mullion windows to gable one of which has been
turned into a door. Ridge chimney stack. The cottage has
double-chamfered mullion windows to front and rear, the
front partly obscured by a later lean-to; the rear with a
mullion removed. INTERIOR: beam pattern gives evidence of
former inglenook fireplace. Tie-beam roof truss of massive
proportions.

Pennine Magazine Vol. 5, No.5, 1984, p.20.


Listing NGR: SD9676704068

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