121, RADCLIFFE ROAD

121, RADCLIFFE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1388245
Date first listed:
26-Apr-1974
List Entry Name:
121, RADCLIFFE ROAD
Statutory Address:
121, RADCLIFFE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1388245
Date first listed:
26-Apr-1974
List Entry Name:
121, RADCLIFFE ROAD
Statutory Address 1:
121, RADCLIFFE ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
121, RADCLIFFE ROAD

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 72725 08960

Details

BOLTON

SD70NW RADCLIFFE ROAD 797-1/4/188 (East side) 26/04/74 No.121

II

Park keeper's lodge, now house. Dated 1854. Render over stone with banded scalloped roof. EXTERIOR: Single storey, comprising a symmetrical block of paired gables with central entrance, and a gabled wing set back to the left. Doorway in gabled porch with double chamfered 4-centred archway, diagonal boarding and ornamental strap hinges to door. 2-light mullioned windows each side of doorway, with ogee arched trefoiled lights with leaded glazing. Painted coat of arms of Bradford family in high relief beneath apex of right-hand gable, and a trefoiled panel carrying the date balancing it in the left. A further 2-light window with foiled lights in wing recessed to left. Ornamental stone stack to wing, and heavy diagonal stack rising between the paired gables of the main block. Gables are coped with finials, and there is ridge cresting to left hand gable and to wing. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the lodge was built to serve Bolton's first public park, established by the Earl of Bradford on his estate, but later closed by him. (Bolton and District Civic Trust: Buildings of Bolton: Bolton: 1983-).



Listing NGR: SD7272508960

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Legacy System number:
476243
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Buildings of Bolton, (1983)

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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.

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