Description
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
BOLTON
SD61SE SMITHILLS DEAN ROAD 797-1/1/218 (East side (off)) 26/04/72 Coach House Restaurant (Formerly Listed as: SMITHILLS DEAN ROAD Smithills Coaching House)
GV II
Coach house and stables with coachman's cottage, now restaurant complex. c1875. Probably by Devey, the architect of alterations and additions at that time to the nearby Smithills Hall (qv), which the coach house was built to serve. Coursed and squared rubble with some half-timbering in gables and stone flagged roof. PLAN: asymmetrical courtyard plan, with former stables forming the rear range, and coachman's cottage projecting from south-west. EXTERIOR: entrance towards left of courtyard, a 4-centred archway with triple timbered coved gable above; single gable on inner face with clock at apex; cupola to roof above. High level mullioned windows in external wall, beneath gables. Stepped roofed western range with ogival cupola surmounting roof. A blocked 4-centred arch to left, flat roofed extension obscuring other original features. Similar extension obscures arched entrances to stable range to north, the arches now only visible internally. Angled eastern range, with some original mullioned windows with leaded lights to first floor. Former coachman's cottage to south-west: jettied timber-framed upper storey with quatrefoil panelled band, Single mullioned window on each floor, and side entry to west (renewed). INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD6989012006
Content
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1091 IOE Records taken by Pamela Jackson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
Rights
© Ms Pamela Jackson. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
People & Organisations
Photographer: Jackson, Pamela
Rights Holder: Jackson, Pamela
Keywords
Rubble, Stone, Timber, Victorian Coachmans Cottage, Domestic, Transport Workers House, House, Dwelling, Jettied House, Monument (By Form), Jettied Building, Timber Framed Building, Timber Framed House, Stable, Agriculture And Subsistence, Animal Shed, Farm Building, Agricultural Building, Transport, Coach House, Road Transport Site, Restaurant, Commercial, Eating And Drinking Establishment