Description

SD 82 SE BACUP TODMORDEN ROAD

7/64 Nos. 2 and 3 The Greens - - II

House, 3 builds in C18 (datestones variously 1732, 1766, 1770), now 2 dwellings. Watershot coursed sandstone blocks with quoins, slate roof with gable copings and kneelers (except right end), 2 chimney stacks on the ridge and one at each gable. Double depth 3-bay plan extended at each end to make 5 bays, with projecting porch to centre. Two storeys; 2-storey gabled porch has quoins, gable coping and kneelers, glazed door in pedimented architrave, the pediment inscribed "1770", at 1st floor a later C19 round-headed window with Ionic colonnettes and scrolled keystone, above which is a square datestone with raised decoration and lettering L ; rainwater head to right of porch lettered I M. To the R I 1770 1732 left are 2 large coupled windows on each floor, to the right one window on each floor, all these top-hung casements with glazing bars and plain stone surrounds; vertical joint between 4th and 5th bays marked by quoins to 4th, and on each floor of 5th bay one sashed window with glazing bars and plain stone surround. Left return wall has blocked round-headed attic window; rear has inter alia a 4-light flush-mullion window at ground floor of 1st bay, and in side wall of outshut a moulded doorway with slab canopy on beaked brackets, and above this a large carved datestone with raised lettering (part damaged) L? surrounded by I M 1766? scrolled cartouche with scallops and a head, and set in a shouldered architrave. Interior: No. 2 has stone staircase with moulded risers, stick balusters, curtail; and a moulded rectangular stone fireplace with linenfold fan on lintel, containing a heavily decorated iron grate with feathered and foliated back plate; No. 3 has one very large room on each floor, the lower with a fielded panel door (the top panels pierced with hearts), and an exceptionally wide stone staircase to the upper room: said to have been used for early Methodist meetings. House belonged to Maden family.

Listing NGR: SD8748023420

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas