Woodside (Woodside Junior School)

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BOLTON

SD60NE CHORLEY NEW ROAD 797-1/3/57 (South side (off)) 26/04/74 Woodside (Woodside Junior School) (Formerly Listed as: CHORLEY NEW ROAD Woodside (now a Special School))

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Small mansion, in use as school since 1950. 1877. George Woodhouse, architect, for the Mellor family, local mill owners. Random rubble with ashlar dressings and Westmorland slate roof. PLAN: asymmetrical plan with entrance and stair hall to north connecting to spinal corridor linking principal rooms on garden fronts to south and west, with service rooms to the north of the corridor. Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and basement. Entrance front is of asymmetrical composition with entrance towards right in gabled porch projecting from tower with steep mansard roof with wrought-iron brattishing, and 2 asymmetrical gables to the left. Blind return of gable to west garden front to right of doorway. Steep arch to doorway in coped gabled porch, with stepped 4-light mullioned and transomed stair window above. Gable to left with 2-light mullioned and transomed window to ground floor, and 5-light mullioned window above, the central light blind with carved panel. Advanced gable to left with 2-light mullioned and transomed windows with stilted heads divided by a central buttress, and oriel window to first floor, the mullioned lights ogee headed. Paired arched lights divided by central shaft and set beneath steep relieving arch in upper storey. 3 lancet windows beyond to ground floor, and oriel window with ogee lights canted across the angle with the eastern return. Axial stack to right of advanced gable. West garden front has 2 asymmetrical gables divided by a narrow bay with small arched windows and gablet. Paired arched lights in left hand gable divided by central buttress; oriel window to first floor. Continuous string course stepped each side of oriel. Canted bay to right-hand gable with ogee head to mullioned lights. South garden front has expressed stack on return of south-west gable flanked by single ogee lights, then advanced gabled range with 4-light mullioned window with ogee headed lights, a similar 3-light window above, both divided by shafts. Foiled lancet window at apex. Axial stack to left. Advanced right-hand range is linked to this gable by a porch with

trefoiled arch to doorway and traceried gabled screen above. Full height canted bay window to right, with ogee lights to mullioned windows, and corbelled balconette to ground floor. Gable to left with paired ogee lights to each floor, and quatrefoil mullioned windows in apex of gable, which has enriched bargeboards to overhanging eaves carried on brackets. Eastern elevation has central tower over back entrance and stair case, the stair expressed with tiered mullioned and transomed window beneath steep relieving arch, and the tower, with corbel table and gargoyles, surmounted by wrought-iron brattishing. Complex expressed stack, buttressed and corbelled out, to left of tower. INTERIOR: the original layout, and much original detailing survives, including both staircases, ornate trefoiled balustrade to main staircase which is top lit with painted glass to lantern. Stained glass in stair window, with armorial emblems and monogrammes of Mellor family. Joinery throughout is original, including the richly panelled dining room walls and ceiling, and the pierced panelled ceiling in the basement billiards room. (Bolton Journal, 7 June 1884, Pictorial Bolton Series, XXI: Bolton).



Listing NGR: SD6847609309

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Bolton Journal in Pictorial Bolton Series 7th June, (1884)

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