Listed buildings in Abram, Greater Manchester

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Abram is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The village and the settlement of Platt Bridge contain two listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Both 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 are a house and a farmhouse.

Buildings[edit]

Name and location Photograph Date Notes
Brookside Farmhouse
53°30′58″N 2°35′02″W / 53.51603°N 2.58390°W / 53.51603; -2.58390 (Brookside Farmhouse)
1716 The farmhouse is in painted brick with a stone-slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays, the right bay gabled. The doorway has a segmental head, most of the windows are casements, and there is a horizontally-sliding sash window. On the front is decorative brickwork in the form of hearts, and in the gable is a datestone.[2][3]
126 Warrington Road
53°30′49″N 2°35′47″W / 53.51351°N 2.59634°W / 53.51351; -2.59634 (126 Warrington Road)
Mid 18th century A brick house with a slate roof, two storeys, a double-depth plan and two bays. It has a central doorway and horizontally-sliding sash windows, those in the ground floor with segmental brick arches.[2][4]

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  • Historic England, "Brookside Farmhouse, Abram (1356250)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 19 November 2017
  • Historic England, "No. 126 Warrington Road, Abram (1228636)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 19 November 2017
  • Historic England, Listed Buildings, retrieved 19 November 2017
  • Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006), Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10910-5