Description

SD 70 NW,
797-1/4/99

BOLTON

GREEN LANE
(South side),
The Brooklyn

(Formerly Listed as:
GREEN LANE
Brooklyn Hotel)

26/04/74

GV

II

House, now public house. Dated 1859. George Woodhouse,
architect. Brick with stone dressings and graded slate roof.
Gothic style, asymmetrically composed.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Entrance front forms wing of garden
front, with doorway to left of centre, the return gable of the
garden front to its left, Gabled porch with heavy buttressing
and stilted archway sprung from low corbels; foiled 2-light
window over the door, and paired foiled lancets to its right,
in narrow bay terminating in embattled parapet with stone
fleche.
Parapet stepped up to dormer gable over right-hand bay, which
has wide 4-light mullioned and transomed window to ground
floor, and 3-light mullioned and transomed window above with
foiled central light. Expressed stack to the right, and on the
left hand gable, both with octagonal stone shafts. Garden
front a simpler composition, forming a 3-window range.
Advanced squared bay window to left, with French windows
renewed, and two 2-light mullioned windows to right. Central
oriel window to first floor, and paired foiled mullioned
window to right, with renewed 4-light mullioned window to
left.
Western elevation also asymmetrically composed, forming a
4-window range. Wide gabled return of garden front to right
has mullioned and transomed windows of 2 and 3 lights, and a
recessed bay beyond it has doorway to right (aligned with
front entrance), with foiled lights inset in door, and cusped
trefoiled spandrels. Stepped mullioned and transomed window
above the doorway, and embattled parapet with stone and
wrought-iron fleche. Full-height bay window to left of
doorway, squared to ground floor, and canted above; lower
4-light mullioned and transomed window, with carved stone
mullions each side. Narrow bay with ornately foiled 2-light
window on each floor, and steep gable with fretted
bargeboards, to the left.
Rear elevation comprises 2 asymmetrical gables with a central
tower with embattled parapet and pyramidal roof; dated in
raised lettering with initials 'T.S.W'. beneath the parapet.

Single storey extensions housing services, probably early C20.
INTERIOR: retains some of the original detail, including
Jacobean style plaster ceilings, and the staircase.
(Bolton Journal, 18 July 1885, Pictorial Bolton Series:
Bolton).

Listing NGR: SD7204707028

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667614

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)