245,247 AND 249, ASHWORTH LANE
245,247 AND 249, ASHWORTH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387864
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 245,247 AND 249, ASHWORTH LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 245,247 AND 249, ASHWORTH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387864
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 245,247 AND 249, ASHWORTH LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 245,247 AND 249, ASHWORTH LANE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 245,247 AND 249, ASHWORTH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 72161 12192
Details
BOLTON
SD7212SW ASHWORTH LANE 797-1/6/6 (North side) 26/04/74 Nos.245, 247 AND 249
GV II
Terrace of 3 houses including a shop. c1840. Squared and watershot coursed stone with hipped slate roof. EXTERIOR AND PLAN 2 storeys, 3-window range comprising 3 single unit, double pile plan houses, the ground floor of No.245 a shop. Doorways in moulded stone architraves, and No.249 now has top-hung casements (with leading of c1930 in windows of central house) with wedge lintels. Shop window to No.245 in moulded wood architrave. Two ridge chimneys. INTERIOR: not inspected. The terrace forms part of the model factory community established by the Ashworth family of New Eagley Mill between 1835 and 1855 (Ashworth Lane, Eleanor Street and Hugh Lupus Street, qv) It forms a single build with No.2 Hugh Lupus Street (qv). (Boyson R: The Ashworth Cotton Enterprise: Oxford: 1970-; Smalley PJ: A Study of Model Villages (Manchester Polytechnic dissertation): 1983-).
Listing NGR: SD7216112192
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475856
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Boyson, R, The Ashworth Cotton Enterprise, (1970)
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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