Tennis Club House
TENNIS CLUB HOUSE, ASHWORTH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387871
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Tennis Club House
- Statutory Address:
- TENNIS CLUB HOUSE, ASHWORTH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387871
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Tennis Club House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TENNIS CLUB HOUSE, 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:
- TENNIS CLUB HOUSE, 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 72170 12125
Details
BOLTON
SD7212SW ASHWORTH LANE 797-1/6/10 (South side (off)) 26/04/74 Tennis Club House
GV II
Tennis club house. 1923, extended 1935. Mock timbering with slate roof. EXTERIOR: single storey, 3 bays with central entrance in pedimented gable, flanked by paired 3-light casement windows. Part glazed door with entablature carried on wrought-iron brackets. Cupola with weather vane surmounts the centre of the roof. INTERIOR: not inspected. The club house was built as an amenity for the model village of Bank Top, established and owned by the Ashworth Family to serve their New Eagley Mills. (Smalley PJ: A Study of Model Villages (Manchester Polytechnic dissertation): 1983-; Boyson R: The Ashworth Cotton Enterprise: Oxford: 1970-).
Listing NGR: SD7217012125
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475863
- 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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