Listed buildings in Denton, Greater Manchester

Denton is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. The town and the township of Haughton contain 18 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, three are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.

Denton was a scattered rural community until coal mining started in the late 18th century, and in the 19th century it became a centre for the hatting industry.^[1] The earliest listed buildings are a church and a mounting block in the churchyard, a house with associated farm buildings, and a farmhouse. The buildings from the 19th century include houses, a workshop, churches and associated structures, a bandstand, and a war memorial.

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Buildings

Name and location	Photograph	Date	Notes	Grade
Mounting block 53°27′07″N 2°06′45″W / 53.45208°N 2.11256°W / 53.45208; -2.11256 (Mounting block)	—	Medieval (possible)	The mounting block is near the lychgate of St Lawrence's Church. It consists of a single piece of stone hewn into two steps.[3]	II
St Lawrence's Church 53°27′08″N 2°06′45″W / 53.45223°N 2.11244°W / 53.45223; -2.11244 (St Lawrence's Church)		c, 1530	The bellcote with a pyramidal roof. The windows are mullioned, the bargeboards are decorated with rosettes, and there is a five-light east window.[4][5]	II*
Hyde Hall 53°26′43″N 2°07′29″W / 53.44523°N 2.12478°W / 53.44523; -2.12478 (Hyde Hall)		Late 16th century	A house, later a farmhouse, the porch was added in 1625, and an extension in the 18th century. It is partly bressumer.[6][7]	II*
Farm buildings, Hyde Hall 53°26′44″N 2°07′32″W / 53.44547°N 2.12559°W / 53.44547; -2.12559 (Farm buildings, Hyde Hall)		1687	The farm buildings form three sides of a courtyard, the oldest being timber framed and on the west side. The other buildings are in brick with roofs of slate and stone-slate, they were built at intervals during the 19th century, and most have two storeys. At the entrance to the yard is an elliptical-headed archway with a keystone, above which is a gable with an open pediment containing an oculus and an arched recess with a dovecote. Around the buildings are round-arched openings and honeycomb vents.[8][9]	II
Manor Farmhouse 53°26′32″N 2°05′50″W / 53.44223°N 2.09712°W / 53.44223; -2.09712 (Manor Farmhouse)	—	1735	A stone farmhouse with lintel. The windows on the front have segmental heads and most are mullioned. At the rear is a rendered 20th-century porch and 20th-century casement windows.[8][10]	II
53 and 55 Stockport Road 53°27′17″N 2°06′46″W / 53.45476°N 2.11278°W / 53.45476; -2.11278 (53 and 55 Stockport Road)	—	Early 19th century	A brick house on a stone lintels.[11]	II
Former Domestic Hatting Workshop 53°27′11″N 2°06′49″W / 53.45301°N 2.11350°W / 53.45301; -2.11350 (Former Domestic Hatting Workshop)	—	Early 19th century	The workshop is in hand-made brick with a slate roof, and has two storeys and an almost square plan. The doorway and windows have slightly segmental arched heads, and the windows are sashes.[12]	II
Haughton Dale House 53°26′07″N 2°06′03″W / 53.43534°N 2.10090°W / 53.43534; -2.10090 (Haughton Dale House)	—	Early 19th century	Originally two houses, later combined into one, it is in stone house with pebbledashed extension to the rear left. The doorways and mullioned windows have segmental heads and hood moulds. In the upper floor is a heraldic panel.[13]	II
Christ Church 53°27′22″N 2°07′18″W / 53.45603°N 2.12180°W / 53.45603; -2.12180 (Christ Church)		1848–53	A Commissioners' church by George Gilbert Scott in Gothic Revival style, it is in stone and has a slate roofs with coped gables. The church consists of a nave and aisles under separate roofs, a chancel and a northwest steeple. The steeple has a three-stage tower with an arched doorway, lancet windows, clock faces, and a broach spire with lucarnes.[14][15]	II
St Mary's Church, Haughton Green 53°26′19″N 2°06′07″W / 53.43867°N 2.10181°W / 53.43867; -2.10181 (St Mary's Church, Haughton Green)		1874–76	The church, designed by J. Medland and Henry Taylor, is baptistry in its base. The tower is octagonal with a terracotta band and a conical roof with gablets. The windows are mullioned, some also with transoms. The chancel has decorative timberwork, pargeting, and gables with enriched bargeboards.[16][17]	II
Lychgate, St Mary's Church 53°26′21″N 2°06′06″W / 53.43904°N 2.10161°W / 53.43904; -2.10161 (Lychgate, St Mary's Church)		c. 1875	The lychgate is at the entrance to the churchyard of St Mary's Church, and was designed by J. Medland and Henry Taylor. It has dwarf stone walls, a timber frame and a slate roof. The gates are in timber and have cast iron hinges.[18]	II
Lychgate and churchyard wall, St Lawrence's Church 53°27′07″N 2°06′45″W / 53.45195°N 2.11254°W / 53.45195; -2.11254 (Lychgate and churchyard wall, St Lawrence's Church)		Late 19th century	The lychgate at the entrance to the churchyard consists of a timber frame with chamfered members carrying a stone-slate roof. The wall encloses the churchyard to the west and the south, and is in stone with triangular coping stones.[19]	II
St Anne's Church 53°27′25″N 2°06′04″W / 53.45699°N 2.10120°W / 53.45699; -2.10120 (St Anne's Church)		1880–82	Designed by J. Medland and Harry Taylor, the church is in red brick with a tile roof. It has a baptistry, a south porch, north and south transepts, a chancel with a vestry and an organ chamber, and a tower at the crossing. The tower has a truncated pyramidal roof, on which is a timber stage, surmounted by a swept pyramidal roof containing gabled dormers. In the angle between the nave and the south transept is an octagonal stair turret with a conical roof. Beneath the chancel and transepts is an undercroft, and in the south transept is a rose window.[20][21]	I
St Anne's Rectory 53°27′26″N 2°06′02″W / 53.45715°N 2.10062°W / 53.45715; -2.10062 (St Anne's Rectory)	—	1882	The rectory, by J. Medland and Harry Taylor, is in red brick with bands and a tile roof. It has two and three storeys, and consists of a central part and gabled cross-wings. In an angle is an octagonal stair tower with a six-light mullioned and transomed stair window and a conical roof. Between the wings is an open porch, and in the left cross-wing is a gabled oriel window. Most of the windows are sashes, and one of them has a carved tympanum panel.[14][22]	II*
Lychgate and wall, St Anne's Church 53°27′24″N 2°06′06″W / 53.45680°N 2.10164°W / 53.45680; -2.10164 (Lychgate and wall, St Anne's Church)		c. 1882	The lychgate at the entrance to the churchyard, and the wall surrounding the churchyard and rectory garden, were designed by J. Medland and Harry Taylor. The lychgate has dwarf brick walls, an oak frame, a tiled roof, and a cross finial. The walls are in brick with terracotta coping, and are stepped at intervals.[23][24]	II
Bandstand 53°27′17″N 2°06′56″W / 53.45484°N 2.11560°W / 53.45484; -2.11560 (Bandstand)		Late 1890s	The bandstand is in Victoria Park and has a brick weathervane in wrought iron.[14][25]	II
War Memorial 53°27′18″N 2°06′58″W / 53.45504°N 2.11601°W / 53.45504; -2.11601 (War Memorial)		1921	The war memorial is in Victoria Park, and is in white plinth, a cruciform pedestal with a moulded cornice, and a tall tapering obelisk, stepped towards the top. In the front of the obelisk is an inscribed panel, and on the pedestal are panels with inscriptions and the names of those lost in the two World Wars.[26]	II
Church of St Mary Our Lady of Sorrows 53°27′15″N 2°06′51″W / 53.45416°N 2.11403°W / 53.45416; -2.11403 (Church of St Mary)		1962–63	A Sanctus bell.[14][27]	II

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