Listed buildings in Audenshaw

Audenshaw is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. The town contains eight listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".[1] The listed buildings consist of houses, a farm building, a milestone, a church, a drinking trough, a former transformer pillar, and a war memorial

Buildings
Name and location Photograph Date Notes
Barn west of Audenshaw Lodge
53.46398°N 2.14076°W / 53.46398; -2.14076 (Barn, Audenshaw Lodge)
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 Late 17th century The barn is in brick on a stone plinth, with decorative brickwork, and has a stone-slate roof. It contains opposing cart and winnowing doors, elliptical-arched wagon entrances, mullioned windows, large 19th-century openings, three tiers of vents, and oculi in the gables.[2][3]
Audenshaw Lodge
53.46412°N 2.14041°W / 53.46412; -2.14041 (Audenshaw Lodge)
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 1774 A brick house with an eaves cornice and a stone-slate roof. It has a double-depth plan, two storeys with attics, a symmetrical front of three bays, a two-bay 19th-century extension to the left, and a rear extension. The central bay protrudes slightly and contains a doorway with pilasters, a cornice, and a later Classical surround. The outer bays contain bow windows in the ground floor, in the upper floor are sash windows with keystones, and above in the centre bay is a dormer window.[2][4]
Milestone
53.47939°N 2.12394°W / 53.47939; -2.12394 (Milestone)
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 Early 19th century The milestone is in sandstone, and consists of a rectangular pillar about 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) high. Its faces are inscribed with the distances in miles to Manchester and to Ashton-under-Lyne.[5]
St Stephen's Church
53.47499°N 2.11525°W / 53.47499; -2.11525 (St Stephen's Church)
1845–46 A Commissioners' church designed by E. H. Shellard in Gothic Revival style, with the chancel added in 1900. It is in sandstone with a slate roof, and consists of a nave, north and south aisles, a chancel and a south vestry, and a west steeple. There are pinnacles on the corners, and the windows are lancets. The steeple has a five-stage tower with a west door, clock faces, gargoyles and a broach spire with lucarnes.[6][7]
Ryecroft Hall
53.47698°N 2.13026°W / 53.47698; -2.13026 (Ryecroft Hall)
c. 1860 A large house, later offices, in stone on a projecting plinth, with bands, a coped parapet, and a slate roof with gables and finials. The house has two storeys with attics, an L-shaped plan, an entrance front of four bays, and a right return of seven bays. The outer bays of the entrance front slightly project, and are gabled, one with a bay window, and the other with an oriel window. The porch is in the third bay and has a Tudor arched doorway, buttresses, and a pierced parapet. Most of the windows are mullioned and transomed with hood moulds.[8][9]
Cattle and horse trough
53.47414°N 2.14224°W / 53.47414; -2.14224 (Cattle and horse trough)
1879 The drinking trough for animals is in polished Cornish granite. It is low and rectangular, containing two basins at different levels, and is set on two piers. On the front of the trough is an inscription.[10]
Former Transformer Pillar
53.47415°N 2.14220°W / 53.47415; -2.14220 (Former Transformer Pillar)
c. 1900 The circular cast iron pillar on a concrete base formerly housed a transformer. The exterior is divided into panels, some with inscriptions. At the top is a bead and reel band and a conical roof, and this is surmounted by a hexagonal lamp on a decorative spindle.[11]
War memorial
53.46537°N 2.10991°W / 53.46537; -2.10991 (War Memorial)
1921 The war memorial is at the entrance to the cemetery. It consists of a stepped plinth and a tall pedestal on which stands the bronze figure of a soldier in battledress holding a gun. On the pedestal are inscriptions and the names of those lost.[6][12]

References

Citations
  1. Historic England
  2. Hartwell, Hyde & Pevsner (2004), p. 129
  3. Historic England & 1067966
  4. Historic England & 1067965
  5. Historic England & 1268427
  6. Hartwell, Hyde & Pevsner (2004), p. 128
  7. Historic England & 1309267
  8. Hartwell, Hyde & Pevsner (2004), pp. 128–129
  9. Historic England & 1067967
  10. Historic England & 1381420
  11. Historic England & 1356484
  12. Historic England & 1356483

Sources
  • Historic England, "Barn west of Audenshaw Lodge (1067966)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 8 October 2017
  • Historic England, "Audenshaw Lodge (1067965)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 8 October 2017
  • Historic England, "Milestone, Audenshaw (1268427)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 8 October 2017
  • Historic England, "Church of St. Stephen, Audenshaw (1309267)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 8 October 2017
  • Historic England, "Ryecroft Hall, Audenshaw (1067967)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 8 October 2017
  • Historic England, "Cattle and Horse Trough at junction with Audenshaw Road, Audenshaw (1381420)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 8 October 2017
  • Historic England, "Former Transformer Pillar at junction with Audenshaw Road, Audenshaw (1356484)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 8 October 2017
  • Historic England, "Audenshaw War Memorial (1356483)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 8 October 2017
  • Historic England, Listed Buildings, retrieved 8 October 2017
  • Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2004), Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10583-5
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