WATERMILLOCK

WATERMILLOCK, CROMPTON WAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387993
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1989
List Entry Name:: WATERMILLOCK
Statutory Address:: WATERMILLOCK, CROMPTON WAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387993
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1989
List Entry Name:: WATERMILLOCK
Statutory Address 1:: WATERMILLOCK, CROMPTON WAY

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WATERMILLOCK, CROMPTON WAY

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 71989 11506

Details

SD71SW 797-1/2/77 04/08/89

BOLTON CROMPTON WAY(North side (off)Watermillock

GII Gentleman's country house,now public house and restaurant.1880-6.Designed by JJ Bradshaw and John Gass of Bolton and Manchester for Herbert and Thomas Thwaites(successive heads of Eden and Thwaites,bleachers);decoration and furnishings by Messrs.Goodall and Co.of Manchester.Yorkshire coursed rubble and York stone dressings;Welsh slate roof.EXTERIOR AND PLAN:entrance front faces south-east,porch gives on to large hall with open Gothic arcade of three bays standing forward of Imperial stair top lit by large lantern;hall flanked by dining room to right with smoking room to rear,and drawing room to left with breakfast room to rear.Corridor to rear of hall leads via a garden entrance vestibule to large and elaborate billiards room that stands almost detached from the house to the north-west.Services to north-east with a rear single-storey range including stables,outbuildings and coachman's cottage.All elevations asymmetrical and varied.Two storeys with attic.The house is approached from the south-west and the south-west and entrance fronts are the most imaginatively treated.Tudor Gothic style,the windows all flat-headed with transoms containing plate glass.On the entrance front,three wings,that to the left hipped with two-light dormer and four-light window to each floor; two paired gables to right each with a large window;off-centre porch with offset buttresses,parapet with griffins as corner pinnacles and large pointed arched entrance,three-light windows above.Storey canted one:three:one bay to right with parapet.South-west(left)front,three wings similarly disposed to entrance front,hipped to left,that to the centre with storey canted bay and pointed window to gable wall;the right bay is dominated by massive external stack with curved sides and parapet below shaped shaft,single light windows to each side.To the extreme left,standing well forward and linked to the house by a low corridor containing garden entrance,the single-storey billiards room under hipped roof with glazed lantern and very tall ridge stack;gabled centre projection,two and three-light windows.North-east front,asymmetrical with one large external stack to dining room,gabled wing and another projection under catslide;one and two-light windows.To the rear(and parallel to billiards room)picturesque single storey service range under hipped roof with double gable over tall two-light windows to centre;tall ridge stacks throughout.INTERIOR:well preserved hall with arched recess and pointed arched partition with clustered marble shafts at foot of Imperial stairs with oak turned balusters and carved panels and knotchboard. Similar arcaded partition to landing;lantern with coving and ornamental leaded glazing.Most ground-floor rooms contain good features:notable are the fireplace with de Morgan tiles and wooden surround and overmantle to dining room,the elaborate inglenook to drawing room,the fitted cupboards,coving and overmantle to breakfast room,and the plaster and pitch-pine panelled ceilings;the billiard room(illustrated in Franklin)has a queen post roof supporting a central lantern with decorative painted glazing to side panels,three-bay marbled arched to dais at north end(originally intended to contain an organ),pine dado,coved recess and Jacobethan fire surround-very elaborate but typical of a well-appointed gentleman's house of this period.(Franklin J:The Gentleman's Country House and the Plan,1835-1914:1981-:57;269;The British Architect:1889-:163;Bolton Journal (Pictorial Bolton Series,CXLII):1887-).

Listing NGR: SD7198911506

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 475989
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Franklin, J, The Gentlemans Country House and its Plan 1835-1914, (1981), 57,269
'Bolton Journal' in Pictorial Bolton Series CXLII, (1887)
'The British Architect' in The British Architect, (1889), 163

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