Listed buildings in Royton

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Royton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England and it is unparished. It contains five listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The area was rural until the coming of the Industrial Revolution when the town grew due to the cotton industry. Th listed buildings consist of a house, a farm building, two churches and a cotton mill.

Royton human settlement in United Kingdom

Royton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 21,284 in 2011. Close to the source of the River Irk, near undulating land at the foothills of the South Pennines, it is 1.7 miles (2.7 km) northwest of Oldham, 3.2 miles (5.1 km) southeast of Rochdale and 7.6 miles (12.2 km) northeast of Manchester.

Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Metropolitan borough in England

The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It has a population of 233,800, and spans 55 square miles (142 km2). The borough is named after its largest town, Oldham, but also includes the outlying towns of Chadderton, Failsworth, Royton and Shaw and Crompton, the village of Lees, and the parish of Saddleworth.

Greater Manchester County of England

Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the cities of Manchester and Salford. Greater Manchester was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972; and designated a functional city region on 1 April 2011.

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II*Particularly important buildings of more than special interest
IIBuildings of national importance and special interest

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Name and locationPhotographDateNotesGrade
11 and 12 Royton Thorp
53°34′10″N2°08′05″W / 53.56951°N 2.13486°W / 53.56951; -2.13486 (11 and 12 Royton Thorp)
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17th centuryOne house, later divided into two, it was originally timber framed and later partly rebuilt in brick, and partly in brick on a stone plinth with quoins. It consists of a main range and a cross-wing. The windows are replacement sashes, and in the left gable is a raised corbel-band, brickwork in diamond patterns, and an owl hole. [2] [3] II
Barn, Royton Thorp
53°34′10″N2°08′07″W / 53.56944°N 2.13530°W / 53.56944; -2.13530 (Barn, Royton Thorp)
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18th centuryThe barn is in stone with quoins, extensions in brick, and a stone-slate roof. There two opposed cart entries with timber lintels, one of which is blocked, windows and doors, one of which is at first floor level. [2] [4] II
St Paul's Church
53°33′56″N2°07′33″W / 53.56542°N 2.12585°W / 53.56542; -2.12585 (St Paul's Church)
The Parish Church of St Paul, Royton - geograph.org.uk - 453554.jpg
1884–89The church is in stone and has a slate roof with coped gables, and is in Gothic Revival style. It consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel with a chapel, organ chamber and vestry, and a north west steeple. The steeple has a tower with doorways on the north and west sides, an octagonal southwest stair turret, and a broach spire with gabled lucarnes. The east and west windows each have five lights and contain Geometrical tracery. [5] [6] II
Lion Mill
53°33′55″N2°06′40″W / 53.56521°N 2.11099°W / 53.56521; -2.11099 (Lion Mill)
Lion Mill, Fitton Street, Royton (geograph 2110932).jpg
1890A former steam-powered cotton spinning mill, with a cast iron and steel frame and brick cladding. It has five storeys and sides of 23 and ten bays, with panelled pilasters and narrow windows. At the northeast corner is a tower with lettering in white, and a balustraded parapet, and there is another tower at the southwest corner. There is also an engine house, a chimney, and a detached office building, and a warehouse. [2] [7] II
St Anne's Church
53°33′36″N2°07′21″W / 53.56005°N 2.12243°W / 53.56005; -2.12243 (St Anne's Church)
St Anne's Church, Oldham.jpg
1908–10The church was designed by Temple Moore, and the tower was added in 1926–27. It is in stone with a tiled roof, and consists of a nave, passage aisles and a chancel under one roof, a lean-to baptistry and porches at the west end, a flat-roofed Lady Chapel at the east end flanked by lean-to vestries, a north transept forming an organ chamber, and a south tower. The tower has five stages, a corner stair turret, bands between the stages, and an embattled parapet. [8] [9] II*

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Historic England Executive non-departmental public body of the British Government, tasked with protecting the historical environment of England

Historic England is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It is tasked with protecting the historical environment of England by preserving and listing historic buildings, ancient monuments and advising central and local government.

The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England’s official list of buildings, monuments, parks and gardens, wrecks, battlefields and World Heritage Sites. It is maintained by Historic England and brings together these different designations as a single resource even though they vary in the type of legal protection afforded to each. Conservation areas do not appear on the NHLE since they are designated by the relevant local planning authority.

Nikolaus Pevsner German-born British scholar

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, especially of architecture.

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