The Roundhouse, Wheatsheaf Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. Public house, shop.
The Roundhouse, Wheatsheaf Buildings
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-parapet-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Public house, shop
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SF 91 NW LITTLEBOROUGH THE SQUARE 1/65 The Roundhouse, Wheatsheaf - Buildings
- II Public house and shops. Early 1860s. Rock-faced stone with slate roof. Semi-circular plan with 3 storeys and a total of 10 bays. Continuous sill and impost bands and a pierced parapet with articulating dies above the eaves cornice. Single and paired sash windows with round-arched heads and pointed hoodmoulds on the ground floor, shouldered heads on the first floor and arched heads on the second floor. 2 shop windows on north side. Doors have arches, shouldered arches or in one case colonnettes with naturalistic capitals supporting a cusped arch and multi-foiled overlight. Ridge chimney stacks. Interior much altered but the pub retains some original features - fireplaces, plaster cornices and staircase with cast-iron balusters. Directories record Robert Hirst as the publican of the Wheat Sheaf in 1821, the name going as far back as 1780.
Listing NGR: SD9376016348
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