Description

SE0749 ADDINGHAM C.P. THE ROOKERY,
BOLTON ROAD

8/116 Nos 36, 38,
2.1.73 40 and 42
including
attached
loomshop

G V II

Row of 8 back-to-back cottages, now 4 through houses, with loomshop
attached at right angles to No 42. Late C18. Watershot masonry,
dressed quoins, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 lst-floor windows.
North-east front has 2 sets of paired doorways with tie-stone jambs
with, to either side, 4-paned sash windows with plain stone surrounds,
the lintels with tooled decoration. Same over to 1st floor. Left-
hand return wall has coped gable and stone stack. 2 other brick
stacks to ridge. Rear has identical fenestration as front but with
inserted window c1984 with concrete surrounds over doorway of No 38.
Loomshop has 6 doorways with monolithic jambs to ground floor and
6 sashed windows to lst-floor of former loomshop. Mono-pitched roof.

Interior: No 42 retains original narrow staircase set between the
back-to-back wall and 2 original simple fireplaces with raised
monolithic jambs, one with basket-grate. An important example of
working class housing, retaining for the most part its original
fenestration.

Listing NGR: SE0785649850

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26600707

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