Barcroft

BARCROFT, 193, BOLTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1084264
Date first listed:
12-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:
Barcroft
Statutory Address:
BARCROFT, 193, BOLTON ROAD
Barcroft, "1894 BC & JB" on door lintel. A House in Rochdale, designed by Edgar Wood, for Benjamin Charles Brierley.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1084264
Date first listed:
12-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:
Barcroft
Statutory Address 1:
BARCROFT, 193, BOLTON ROAD

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BARCROFT, 193, BOLTON ROAD

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

District:
Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 87456 11719

Details

SD 81 SE ROCHDALE BOLTON ROAD (south side) 6/30 No. 193 (Barcroft) II

House,"1894 BC & JB" on door lintel.By Edgar Wood. Rendered brick with stone dressings and clay tile roof, (replacement for stone slate). Long 2-storey picturesquely planned range with projecting gable wing at front, a single storey brick wing to the rear left and the driveway passing through an opening towards the left giving access to the rear. 4 bays, a first floor flat-faced mullioned bay window above the driveway in bay 1 (the whole of which does not appear on the Architect's original drawings). Bay 2 has a raked strapwork band (which continues round the rest of the house) between stepped windows on two levels which light the staircase. Bay 3 has an elliptical-headed doorway with inscribed lintel, decorative strapwork panel and original door to the left of a low 5-light mullion and transom window; the gable has a projecting bargeboard and applied decorative timber pattern. Bay 4 has a diagonally set Tudor bay-window, square in plan with mullion and transom windows to the ground floor and mullioned to the first. All window have leaded lights. The house expresses Wood's intention to revive vernacular building techniques.

Listing NGR: SD8745611719

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
358857
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.

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