The Brooklyn
THE BROOKLYN, GREEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388046
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Brooklyn
- Statutory Address:
- THE BROOKLYN, GREEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388046
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Brooklyn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BROOKLYN, GREEN 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:
- THE BROOKLYN, GREEN 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 72047 07028
Details
SD 70 NW,
797-1/4/99
BOLTON
GREEN LANE
(South side),
The Brooklyn
(Formerly Listed as:
GREEN LANE
Brooklyn Hotel)
26/04/74
GV
II
House, now public house. Dated 1859. George Woodhouse,
architect. Brick with stone dressings and graded slate roof.
Gothic style, asymmetrically composed.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Entrance front forms wing of garden
front, with doorway to left of centre, the return gable of the
garden front to its left, Gabled porch with heavy buttressing
and stilted archway sprung from low corbels; foiled 2-light
window over the door, and paired foiled lancets to its right,
in narrow bay terminating in embattled parapet with stone
fleche.
Parapet stepped up to dormer gable over right-hand bay, which
has wide 4-light mullioned and transomed window to ground
floor, and 3-light mullioned and transomed window above with
foiled central light. Expressed stack to the right, and on the
left hand gable, both with octagonal stone shafts. Garden
front a simpler composition, forming a 3-window range.
Advanced squared bay window to left, with French windows
renewed, and two 2-light mullioned windows to right. Central
oriel window to first floor, and paired foiled mullioned
window to right, with renewed 4-light mullioned window to
left.
Western elevation also asymmetrically composed, forming a
4-window range. Wide gabled return of garden front to right
has mullioned and transomed windows of 2 and 3 lights, and a
recessed bay beyond it has doorway to right (aligned with
front entrance), with foiled lights inset in door, and cusped
trefoiled spandrels. Stepped mullioned and transomed window
above the doorway, and embattled parapet with stone and
wrought-iron fleche. Full-height bay window to left of
doorway, squared to ground floor, and canted above; lower
4-light mullioned and transomed window, with carved stone
mullions each side. Narrow bay with ornately foiled 2-light
window on each floor, and steep gable with fretted
bargeboards, to the left.
Rear elevation comprises 2 asymmetrical gables with a central
tower with embattled parapet and pyramidal roof; dated in
raised lettering with initials 'T.S.W'. beneath the parapet.
Single storey extensions housing services, probably early C20.
INTERIOR: retains some of the original detail, including
Jacobean style plaster ceilings, and the staircase.
(Bolton Journal, 18 July 1885, Pictorial Bolton Series:
Bolton).
Listing NGR: SD7204707028
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476044
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bolton Journal in Pictorial Bolton Series 18th July, (1885)
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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