Description

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SJ 98 SW
3/120

POYNTON-WITH-WORTH CP
TOWERS ROAD (East Side)
Rose Cottage, Southside and Towersyard Farm

(Formerly listed as Southside and Rose Cottage)

II
Formerly colliery offices and cottage, now three houses: dated 1846 for Fifth Lord Vernon. English garden wall bond, Poynton red brick, some painted sandstone dressings. Welsh slate roof and four brick chimneys. The offices have an L-shaped plan are one storey with a six-bay front. Windows, are recessed under semi-circular, gauged and rubbed brick heads and are sashes with radial glazing bars and marginal lights (left end bay altered). Right end bay projects under stone-coped, dentilated gable. Flat, wedged stone head with date over four-panelled door with some studding and three ornate hinges. Cottage is attached to left. Two storey, symmetrical, three bay front, with two chimneys. Sixteen-pane sashes under wedged and cambered gauged and rubbed brick heads. Framed and boarded door under soldier arch of headers.

For details of Towers Yard and its place in the incline system see Ashmore,1982, 54.

Listing NGR: SJ9290584072

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26525843

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey