Description

SD 92SW TODMORDEN (former M.B.) ROCHDALE ROAD
(east side)

5/251 Millbrook House and attached
Laneside House and Waterside
House west and south

II

Long range forming 4 dwellings. Early C18 and mid C19. Watershot masonry and
stone slate roof to cottages, ashlar with slate roof to Waterside House. Long
3-storey range has 7 bays of windows. Those to 1st 3 bays are double chamfered
mullioned. Reads: 4 lights with 5 lights over. 2nd bay, 7 lights with 5 lights
over. Set between 2nd and 3rd bay is doorway to ground floor and taking-in door
to 2nd floor (blocked) with cat-head in low pedimented gable. 3rd bay, 7-light
window with altered C19 window of 3 large lights to 1st floor, and of 5 lights
to 2nd floor (lacks 2 mullions). Other bays have C19 square sash windows to 2nd
floor with wooden bay windows set either side of doorways. Ground floor has 6-
light double chamfered mullioned window under bays 5 and 6. 5 stacks to ridge.
Attached to right hand end of this range is Waterside House which breaks forward
and is of 2 storeys. 3 symmetrical bays face road. Quoins, cornice. Semi-
circular arched doorway with fanlight enclosed by tapering pilasters and open
pediment. Over and to either side large sash windows with plain stone surrounds
and projecting sills. Attached to right hand return wall is added bay, later
C19 with 2 storey semi-octagonal bay under tripartite roof. Band, deeply
moulded cornice. Long 'french' windows to each face with large sash window to
each canted side at 1st floor. West side has 3 stilted arched windows (2
blind), with raised keystone and impost band. East side has large lateral
stack. Rear of cottage range preserves some double chamfered mullioned windows.
Attached at right angles is early textile factory of 2 storeys with large
sashed windows and pointed arched window with Gothic glazing. Rear of Waterside
House has tall stair window with semi-circular head with Gothic glazed fanlight.
To either side small flat faced mullioned windows of 4 lights and 6 lights
under which is segmental arched opening now filled with stepped window the
centre light of which is sashed and has segmental head.
Interior of ground floor room to Waterside House (south) has modillion plaster
cornice with Greek key pattern frieze. Is said to be the first cotton factory
in the town run originally bv the Fieldens.

Listing NGR: SD9334723630

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26567825

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