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Old Hall Fold

A Grade II* Listed Building in Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.5001 / 53°30'0"N

Longitude: -2.1117 / 2°6'42"W

OS Eastings: 392689

OS Northings: 400389

OS Grid: SD926003

Mapcode National: GBR FWPZ.M0

Mapcode Global: WHB9J.J9N1

Plus Code: 9C5VGV2Q+38

Entry Name: Old Hall Fold

Listing Date: 12 January 1967

Last Amended: 14 July 1987

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1067997

English Heritage Legacy ID: 212670

ID on this website: 101067997

Location: Taunton, Tameside, Greater Manchester, OL7

County: Tameside

Electoral Ward/Division: Ashton Waterloo

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Ashton-under-Lyne

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester

Church of England Parish: Ashton-under-Lyne Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: Manchester

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Description


ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE NEWMARKET ROAD
SD 90 SW (south side)

1/22 No. 169
(Old Hall Fold)
(formerly listed
as Old Hall
12/01/67 Farmhouse, (No 169)

G.V. II*

House. Medieval cruck-framed structure within C18 walls and
roof. English garden wall bond brick with graduated stone
slate roof. 3-bay 2-storey house with crosswing to right
projecting at the front under an outshut roof. 4, 2 and 2-
light casement windows on each floor,one below a wide
cambered brick arch. Door between bays 1 and 2 and
passageway to right which leads to Taunton Hall (q.v.).
Brick ridge chimney stack. The rear has been rendered, has
C20 casement windows, a small kitchen wing and an altered
shippon wing adjoining the left gable. The building's
principal feature is the survival of 3 particularly fine
cruck trusses. The 2 oldest are at each end of the principal
room. They are particularly large in both overall size and
cross section of the blades. The truss to the right of the
principal room has an arch-braced collar and probably
identifies the centre of the original open hall which has
now been floored over. An inglenook fireplace backs onto it,
the massive bressumer beam supported on a carved heck post
which is now encased or replaced by a brick pier. The room
also has an ovolo-moulded ceiling beam. The third cruck
truss is at right angles to the others in the right
crosswing. It has blades which are not markedly curved, a
tie-beam at floor level, a collar, wattle and daub infill
and is probably of C16 date. It is visible on one side from
floor to ridge. The survival of such an early cruck-framed
structure is rare in the north-west of England. The
evolutionary development of this building is particularly
worthy of note.


Listing NGR: SD9268900389

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