WHITWORTH HOUSE

WHITWORTH HOUSE, 1, WHITWORTH SQUARE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073552
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: WHITWORTH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: WHITWORTH HOUSE, 1, WHITWORTH SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073552
Date first listed:: 29-Jul-1966
List Entry Name:: WHITWORTH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WHITWORTH HOUSE, 1, WHITWORTH SQUARE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WHITWORTH HOUSE, 1, WHITWORTH SQUARE

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Rossendale (District Authority)
Parish:: Whitworth
National Grid Reference:: SD 88664 17676

Details

SD 81 NE 11/262

WHITWORTH, WHITWORTH SQUARE, No. 1 (Whitworth House)

29.7.1966

GV II

House, later C18, with added wing at east end probably early C19, now 2 dwellings (under one address). Coursed sandstone with quoins, rusticated quoins to wing, slate roofs on 2 levels, hipped and low-pitched over wing, chimneys at left gable, on the ridge, and at each end of wing. L-shaped plan: original house double-depth, 2 bays, with 3rd bay added to right; projecting 2-bay double-depth wing to right. Two storeys, the wing higher. Between 1st and 2nd bays a doorway with chamfered surround, on each side coupled tall windows with glazing bars, now top-hung casements; 3rd bay has similar windows less regularly disposed. Left return wall of this part has plain doorway and is slate-hung above ground floor, with coupled sash windows towards the rear. Wing to right has moulded cornice and low parapet, doorway near angle, one window at ground floor and 2 above, all tall with plain surrounds and now top-hung casements with glazing bars; end wall has one window on each floor, rear has round-headed stairlight. Interior: mostly altered, but original C18 fireplace in rear room at ground floor, and doors with fielded panels which may be original. History: home of the "celebrated Whitworth doctors", the first of whom, John Taylor (d1802), was "a farrier who did not confine his surgical operations to horses", specialising in cancer and broken limbs: he was sent for by George III to attend Princess Elizabeth (Henry Fishwick History of Rochdale 1889, p85)

Listing NGR: SD8866417676

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Legacy System number:: 185841
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Fishwick, H, History of Rochdale, (1889), 85

Legal

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