Description

SE 0422 and SE 0522
15/190

SOWERBY BRIDGE
ROCHDALE ROAD
(south side)
Nos 1 and 2 Mill House Lodge

II

Pair of lodge cottages. Late C19. Rusticated stone, Welsh slate roof. Symmetrical
T-shaped plan. 2 storeys. Square-headed traceried windows with cusped lights under
relieving arches. South front: 3 bays, central bay projecting as wing. Plinth.
Central bay has a 3-light window to each floor, oversailing eaves with decorative
bargeboards and finial, and to each return a chamfered quoined Tudor-arched doorway.
Outer bays each have a single-light ground-floor window and low oversailing eaves.
Sanded fishscale slates to roof. Stack to central gable and to ridge at junction
with cross range. Rear: a chamfered quoined doorway to either end. Right return:
a 3-light window to each floor; oversailing eaves with decorative bargeboards.
Left return, facing drive: canted bay window with 2-light window above; gable as
right return. The cottages stand on the former drive to Mill House, now demolished,
and formerly housed the gardener and chauffeur.

Listing NGR: SE0504422759

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26480501

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)