Description

BOLTON

SD7112NE PLAYFAIR STREET 797-1/5/175 (North side) 26/04/74 Nos.1-10 & Nos.13-18 (consec) Park View, and No.11 & No.12 Back Park View (Formerly Listed as: PARK VIEW Nos 1-10 (consec). Nos 13-18 (consec). Nos 11 and 12 Back Park View)

GV II

Terrace of 18 houses, built (perhaps in 2 phases) c1850-60. Random rubble with dressed quoins and slate roofs. Developed as an L-plan forming 2 sides of an open square facing allotments. EXTERIOR AND PLAN: the 2 ranges of 2 storey, single unit double pile plan dwellings are terminated by a 3 storey block at each end. Windows largely renewed in original openings with wedge lintels, but some retain original 6-pane sash windows. Plain architraves to doorways. The end houses have stone canopies carried on iron brackets to doorways, and round arched windows in attic storey. End wall stacks. Integral stone walls enclose yards to rear of terrace. INTERIOR: not inspected. The houses were built as part of the industrial community of Eagley Bank, developed in association with the Chadwick's Eagley Mills (Park Row and Playfair Street, qv). (Smalley PJ: A Study of Model Villages (Manchester Polytechnic dissertation): 1983-).



Listing NGR: SD7167812989

External Links

• Wikidata Q26667789

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)