ALDER HOUSE

Overview

Heritage Category: Listed Building

Grade: II*

List Entry Number: 1072207

Date first listed: 16-Nov-1954

Statutory Address: ALDER HOUSE, HOLDEN LANE

Location

Statutory Address: ALDER HOUSE, HOLDEN LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

National Grid Reference: SD 76580 50451

Summary

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Reasons for Designation

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History

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Details

BOLTON-BY-BOWLAND HOLDEN LANE

SD 75 SE

4/41 Alder House 16.11.1954 - II*

House, 'TW 1708' on plaque. Sandstone rubble with stone slate roof. Double-pile plan with end stacks and central 3-storey gabled porch. 3 storeys. Windows have an inner cyma moulding and outer chamfer. On each side of the porch, on the ground and first floor, is an 8-light mullioned and transomed window with hood. On the 2nd floor, on each side, is a 3-light stepped mullioned window. The upper storeys of the porch oversail on a moulded string. On the 1st floor is a 6-light mullioned and transomed window with a stepped head, a segmental head to the lower central light, and a hood with spiral stops. On the 2nd floor is a stepped mullioned window with segmental heads to the lights and with a hood with spiral stops. The outer doorway is chamfered with a shaped lintel, with a date plaque over, and with a hood with spiral stops. The inner doorway is cyma moulded with a Tudor arch. The porch and right-hand gables have copings with footstones. At the rear are a 5-light mullioned window and 2 cross windows, with inner ovolo and outer chamfer, a one-light ovolo- moulded window with shaped head, and several windows with re-used C17th dressings. Inside there is a stair with 2 flights of stone around a closed well, continuing up to the 2nd floor as an open-well closed- string stair with square newels and turned balusters. On the 1st floor there is oak partitioning, and doors, of raised and fielded panels. The only roof truss visible at time of survey has an interrupted tie beam above floor level, braced downwards to a main floor joist.

Listing NGR: SD7658050451

Legacy

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Legacy System number: 183213

Legacy System: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.