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In the Middle Ages, Heywood formed a chapelry in the township, around Heywood Hall, a manor house owned by a family with that surname. Farming was the main industry of a sparsely populated rural area. [3] The population supplemented their incomes by hand-loom woollen weaving in the domestic system. [4]
Heywood is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, and it is unparished. The town and the surrounding countryside contain 18 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
Hopwood Hall is a Grade II* historic house in Middleton, Greater Manchester, England, which was the ancestral country home of the landed gentry family of Hopwood who held it from the 12th century, passing to the Gregge (later Gregge-Hopwood, then Hopwood) family and remaining in their possession until it was closed up in 1922. [1]
It is a fortified manor house constructed from stone and was built for Sir Thomas Pilkington. [17] The castle may have replaced an earlier house on the site, surrounded by a moat . [ 16 ] Excavation of known remains has revealed foundation walls 180 metres (590 ft) by 82 metres (269 ft) and a keep or tower 25 metres (82 ft) by 19 metres (62 ft ...
This is intended to be as full a list as possible of country houses, castles, palaces, other stately homes, and manor houses in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands; any architecturally notable building which has served as a residence for a significant family or a notable figure in history.
The metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, divided into ten metropolitan boroughs Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) There are 48 Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester, England. In the United Kingdom, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure ...
A former manor house, later altered and extended and used for other purposes. It is timber framed on a stone plinth with rear extensions in brick, and a slate roof. Its plan consists of a hall and cross-wings, with a porch in the angle and a further wing added in the 19th century.
A manor house with an H-shaped plan. The oldest part is the central hall, which is timber framed on a sandstone plinth. The north service wing was added probably in the early 15th century; it was originally timber framed, and was encased in brick in the 17th century.