The Arden Arms
23, MILLGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240421
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Arden Arms
- Statutory Address:
- 23, MILLGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240421
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Arden Arms
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23, MILLGATE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE ARDEN ARMS, CORPORATION STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 23, MILLGATE
- Statutory Address:
- THE ARDEN ARMS, CORPORATION STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockport (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ8979690582
Details
The following building shall be added:
1.
5086
SJ 8990 NE
1/253
CORPORATION STREET
(West side)
The Arden Arms (including
No 23 Millgate)
II
2.
Public house. c1815 altered mid C19 and early C20. Red brick in Flemish bond.
Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys with cellars; corner site has 4 bays to Corporation
Street and l-bay left return forming No 23, Millgate. Bay 3 has 6-panel door
and fanlight with curved glazing bars in square-headed opening with reeded wooden
architrave; other bays have early C20 casements with etched glass under arch-braced
transoms in original openings with projecting sills and cambered brick arches.
1st floor: Mid-late C19 4-pane sashes in original openings; bay-3 window narrower
and blind. 2nd floor: shorter 4-pane sashes to each bay. Wooden eaves cornice.
Roof hipped at left end with altered stack in front of ridge; end stacks to
each slope of right gable. Rear: tall stair-window with 24-pane sash under
cambered arch. Left return: doorway on left of window, all as front. Interior:
ground floor and 1st floor have several early C19 6-panel doors in architraves
with corner bosses. Early-mid C19 bar servery with curved end, panelled dado
and pilasters between 4- and 8-pane sashes; entablature. Early C19 staircase
rises to 2nd floor with turned newels stick balusters and swept handrail. Ground-
floor rooms are numbered and front-right (No 6) has blue and red quarry-tile
floor and early mid C19 fixed benches. Fielded-panel cupboards in kitchen to
rear have H-hinges. Front-left room (No 2) has later bench seating. Owned
by the Raffald family from c1815; the 1st landlord George Raffald, being the
nephew of Elizabeth Raffald, author of "The Experienced Housekeeper" and compiler
of Manchester's first trade directory. Owned by Robinsons Brewery since 1889.
Further history in Stockport Sites Record, Local Studies Library.
Listing NGR: SJ8979690582
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 210896
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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