Buildings
| Name and location | Photograph | Date | Notes |
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| Medlock Hall 53°30′03″N 2°07′29″W / 53.50083°N 2.12461°W |
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17th century | A house that incorporates and earlier cruck truss, with two storeys and three bays. The left two bays are timber framed on a stone plinth, and the right bay is a gabled cross-wing in stone. In the left two bays is a porch and casement windows, and the windows in the cross-wing are mullioned with hood moulds. At the rear are 20th-century extensions and a dormer window. Inside the house is an inglenook and a bressumer.[2][3] |
| Woodhouse Green Farmhouse and stables 53°30′28″N 2°07′53″W / 53.50773°N 2.13126°W |
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17th century | The building is timber framed on a stone plinth, with brick infill, some replacement in brick, and a stone-slate roof. The main range has two storeys and three bays, and there is a wing protruding forward from the left, giving an L-shaped plan. The windows are sashes, some of them horizontally-sliding.[2][4] |
| Diamond Hall Farmhouse 53°30′03″N 2°08′30″W / 53.50076°N 2.14175°W |
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Late 17th century | The farmhouse is in brick with a slate roof, two storeys, two bays, and extensions to the left and rear. In the centre is a gabled porch, with an elliptical-headed casement window to the left, and two later windows to the right. In the upper floor is a horizontally-sliding sash window and a later window. Other features are a small blocked arched window with a hood mould above the porch, and decorative brickwork. Inside the farmhouse is an inglenook and a bressumer.[2][5] |
| Barn, Daisy Nook Farm 53°30′08″N 2°07′35″W / 53.50218°N 2.12651°W |
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Early 18th century | The barn is in brick on a stone plinth, with quoins, stone dressings and a stone-slate roof. There are three bays, the left bay projecting as an outshut. The barn contains two cart entries, one with a timber lintel, the other with an elliptical brick arch. There are also three blocked segmental-headed shippon doors, and three tiers of decorative ventilation holes.[6] |
| Pack Horse Inn 53°30′44″N 2°09′20″W / 53.51233°N 2.15543°W |
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Early 18th century (probable) | The former public house is in stone with quoins, extensions in brick, and a slate roof. There are two storeys, the original part has two bays, a single-bay extension on both sides, and a small 20th-century extension at the rear. The central doorway has a chamfered surround and a heavy lintel, and the windows, which are casements, also have chamfered surrounds. Against the front wall is a mounting block.[a][7][8] |
| Barn, Medlock Hall 53°30′02″N 2°07′29″W / 53.50055°N 2.12471°W |
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Mid 18th century (probable) | The barn is in stone with quoins, a slate roof, three bays, and a brick bay added to the north in the 20th century. It contains a cart entry, a blocked winnowing door, two blocked doors, and two tiers of ventilation slits.[9] |
| Failsworth Lodge 53°30′28″N 2°10′18″W / 53.50772°N 2.17178°W |
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1770 | A house, later used for other purposes, in brick with a band, a modillion eaves cornice, and a slate roof. It has a double-depth plan, three storeys with a basement, and a front of five bays flanked by recessed two-storey wings with hipped roofs. It has a central doorway approached by opposed flights of steps with pilasters, a fanlight, and an open pediment. Most of the windows are casements, and some are sashes.[2][10] |
| 28, 30 and 32 Ashton Road West 53°30′27″N 2°09′47″W / 53.50762°N 2.16305°W |
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1791 | A row of three brick houses, rendered at the left side and the rear, with a stone-slate roof. They have a double-depth plan, two storeys, four bays, and a 20th-century lean-to extension on the left. The doors and windows have segmental heads, and the windows are casements replacing workshop windows.[2][11] |
| Waterhouses Aqueduct 53°30′15″N 2°07′13″W / 53.50423°N 2.12023°W |
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1792–98 | The aqueduct carries the Hollinwood Branch of the Ashton Canal over the River Medlock. It is in stone and consists of a single segmental arch. The aqueduct has two bands, a parapet wall on the side of the towpath, and square terminal piers.[12] |
| Walmsley's House and Warehouse 53°30′39″N 2°09′30″W / 53.51079°N 2.15825°W |
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1804 | Originally a warehouse, shop and house, later used for other purposes, it is in brick with a slate roof, and has an L-shaped plan. The front facing the road has a stone plinth, an eaves cornice, two storeys and five bays. In the second bay is a doorway with an architrave, a fanlight and an archivolt, to the right is a shop window, and in the right bay is a loading door. The front facing the canal is curved, and has four storeys and eight bays, and contains cross-casement windows.[2][13] |
| St John's Church 53°30′42″N 2°09′16″W / 53.51171°N 2.15456°W |
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1845–46 | A Commissioners' church that was designed by E. H. Shellard, with the tower added in 1879. It is in stone with a slate roof, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a north porch, a chancel flanked by an organ chamber and a vestry, and a west steeple. The steeple has a tower with four stages, angle buttresses, clock faces, corner gargoyles, and a broach spire with gabled lucarnes. The windows along the sides of the church are paired lancets under a continuous hood mould, in the clerestory are spherical triangles, and the east window has three lancets.[7][14] |
| Firs Hall 53°30′35″N 2°09′43″W / 53.50968°N 2.16189°W |
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c. 1850 | A house, later used for other purposes, in brick on a projecting plinth, with rusticated quoins, a sill band, an eaves cornice with Ionic modillions, stone dressings, and a hipped slate roof. It has an L-shaped plan with two storeys and fronts of three bays. The middle bay projects forward, it is pedimented, and contains a flat-roofed porch with corner pilasters and a modillioned entablature. The windows are sashes with architraves.[15][16] |
| Regent Mill 53°30′32″N 2°09′37″W / 53.50891°N 2.16028°W |
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1906 | A former steam-powered cotton spinning mill designed by George Stott, it is in brick with stone dressings. It has four storeys, fronts of 42 and five bays, and a water tower with a pyramidal roof at the northwest corner. At the rear are two-storey extensions, and the engine house projects from the southeast corner.[2][17] |
| War memorial 53°30′31″N 2°09′50″W / 53.50848°N 2.16378°W |
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c. 1923 | The war memorial is in Portland stone, and has a square stepped plinth, an octagonal base, and a fluted column with coloured decoration, and a domed top. It is surmounted by the winged figure of Victory and a laurel wreath in bronze. On the base are inscriptions.[18] |
| Church of St Mary the Immaculate Conception 53°30′17″N 2°09′26″W / 53.50469°N 2.15730°W |
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1963–67 | A Roman Catholic church in brick, reinforced concrete, and cast stone, with a roof in Westmorland green slate. It consists of a nave with a clerestory, narrow north and south aisles, north and south transepts containing chapels, a narthex at the liturgical west end, and a separate circular baptistry. At the entrance is a porte-cochère with a large round-headed arch containing a suspended figure of Saint Mary in aluminium. Above this is a concrete cylindrical spire with projecting fins narrowing to a point. Along the sides of the aisles are round-headed lancet windows and the clerestory windows are circular.[7][19] |
