Shaw and Crompton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. It contains 19 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 parish contains the town of Shaw and Crompton and the surrounding countryside. Most of the listed buildings are farmhouses, farm buildings, houses and cottages, many of them dating from the late 18th century. The other listed buildings include an ancient cross shaft, churches, a lych gate, and a war memorial.
The cross shaft is in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church. It is in stone and is rectangular with chamfered corners, and on each face is a carved arch. It stands on a concrete base, and has a sundial head from the 19th century.[2]
The farmhouse and barn to the right are in stone. The house has a slate roof to its main part, and a stone-slate roof on the rear wing. There are two storeys, two bays, a rear wing, and the windows are mullioned, with a continuous hood mould above the ground floor windows. The barn has an asbestos roof, and two blocked cart entrances.[3][4]
The farmhouse and attached barn to the left are in stone with a stone-slate roof. The house has two storeys and two bays, and an outshut at the rear. On the front is a doorway, and the windows are mullioned. The barn has a large segmental-arched cart entrance.[5][6]
A stone house with a slate roof, it was formerly three cottages. The main part has a single-depth plan, two storeys and three bays, and the whole front is gabled. It has a 20th-century porch and mullioned windows. At the rear is an earlier lower two-storey wing.[3][7]
Four stone houses with an eavescornice and a stone-slate roof. Nos. 1 and 2 were originally one house, and Nos. 3 and 8 were originally back-to-back. They have three storeys and four bays. The windows are mullioned, and in the upper floor of the left gable end is a blocked taking-in door.[9]
A row of nine stone cottages with a stone flagged roof. They have a double-depth plan, two low storeys, and each cottage has one bay. The doorways have heavy stone lintels, and each cottage has a three-light mullioned window.[10]
A row of five stone houses, most of which are rendered or pebbledashed, with a stone-slate roof. They have two storeys, a double-depth plan, and each house has one bay with a door to the right. The windows have three lights and are mullioned. The roof is gabled on the left and hipped on the right.[11]
A stone farmhouse with a gable end in brick and a stone-slate roof. It has a double-depth plan, two storeys with an attic, and two bays, and the windows are mullioned.[3][13]
A rendered brick house with an eavescornice and a slate roof. It has a double-depth plan, two storeys, five bays, and extensions at the rear. The central doorway has 3⁄4 columns, a radial fanlight, and an open pediment. The windows are sashes, and the window above the door has a keystone.[16]
A stone farmhouse on a plinth, with quoins, a sill band, an eavescornice, and a stone-slate roof. It has a double-depth plan, two storeys with a basement, three bays, and a stair wing at the rear. The central doorway is approached by steps, and has 3⁄4Doric columns, a radial fanlight, and an open pediment. The windows are sashes, and at the rear is an arched stair window.[3][17]
The chapel and Sunday school are in stone with slate roofs, the Sunday school being added in 1871, and both have two storeys. The chapel has a projecting porch with corner antae and Doric columns, and an entablature. On the entrance front are rusticated corner pilasters, a sill band, arched sash windows, a modillioncornice, and a pediment with an oculus and volute decoration. Along the sides are two tiers of sash windows, and in front of the chapel are cast iron railings and gates. The Sunday school behind the chapel has a central pediment, doors with pilasters, fanlights, and keystones, and arched windows with keystones.[20][21]
The church is in stone with a slate roof. It consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south transept, a chancel with chapels and a vestry, and a tower at the crossing. The tower has an octagonal stair turret, clock faces, and a pyramidal roof. In the transept is a rose window, and the east window has five lights and Gothictracery.[22][23]
The war memorial stands in public gardens, and was designed by Richard Reginald Goulden. It consists of a two-stepped plinth and a pedestal in Aberdeengranite on which is a bronze statue depicting a nude man defending young children from beasts. On the front of the pedestal is an inscription, and on the sides are the names of those lost in the world wars.[25][26]
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