Description

SJ 99 NW, 1478/4/10006

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE,
STOCKPORT ROAD
(South side),

Nos. 1-23 (odd), 2-24
(even),

The Twelve Apostles Terrace

II

Terrace of workers housing. Built by the Mason family, owners of
the Oxford Mills (q.v.). Late C19 with C20 alterations. Red brick
laid to Flemish bond with ashlar sandstone dressings, deep
decorated ridge stacks with clay pots and a Welsh slate roof
covering. Linear plan, with advanced gabled end bays and rear
service ranges enclosed by attached boundary wall. North
elevation, two storeys and attics; 1:10:1 house bays, each house
of three window bays. Bays 1 and 10 of main range with
doorways with overlights below shallow segmental brick arches
at the angle with the gabled end houses, the remaining
dwellings with coupled doorways set back within recessed
openings. These have shallow stepped segmental arches of
chamfered brick rising from elaborate moulded springers
incorporating foliage stops to hood moulds. Four-panelled
doors, the upper two panels glazed, those below
faceted. Rectangular overlights. Each house with coupled sashes
without glazing bars to ground and first floors, the former
beneath segmental arches. The first floor openings are set
within a blind arcade of semi-circular headed openings, three
such recesses above each coupled doorway and at each party
wall. Recessed dogtooth brick band and moulded string above
ground-floor window heads and below first floor cills
themselves linked by a plain ashlar band. Attic floor has three
small sashes per house between blind openings. Decorative
timber brackets support overhanging eaves. Gabled end houses
with taller attic sashes, with semi-circular arch to central
window head having attenuated keystone incorporating bracket
to gable apex. End sidewalls with projecting chimney stacks
carried on corbelled brickwork. South-west end house with
altered shop front. Attached rear brick boundary wall with
integral openings encloses rear yards and supports some lean-to
outhouses.

Listing NGR: SJ9297198112

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26623169

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Recommended Books

• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)