Former Lodge to Watermillock Gate House
FORMER LODGE TO WATERMILLOCK, SEYMOUR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388263
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former Lodge to Watermillock Gate House
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER LODGE TO WATERMILLOCK, SEYMOUR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388263
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1989
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Lodge to Watermillock Gate House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER LODGE TO WATERMILLOCK, SEYMOUR ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- GATE HOUSE, 139, SEYMOUR ROAD
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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:
- FORMER LODGE TO WATERMILLOCK, SEYMOUR ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- GATE HOUSE, 139, SEYMOUR 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 71935 11422
Details
BOLTON
SD71SW SEYMOUR ROAD 797-1/2/204 (West side) 04/08/89 No.139 Gate House (Formerly Listed as: CROMPTON WAY Former Lodge to Watermillock)
GV II
Includes: Former lodge to Watermillock SEYMOUR ROAD. Lodge to Watermillock, Crompton Way (qv). 1880. JJ Bradshaw and John Gass, architects. Coursed tooled rubble with graded green slate roof. EXTERIOR AND PLAN: one-and-a-half storeys. T-plan with C20 extension to rear. Entrance loggia of 2 bays, with segmentally arched arcade with low piers and rich foliate capitals and spandrels; parapet with coping. Gabled dormer above, with overhanging eaves and finial. To the right the storey curved end bay of the wing, with 5-light dressed stone mullioned windows with leaded panes to each floor; deeply overhanging conical roof with finial. Side elevation to Crompton Way with deep eaves broken by gabled dormer to the left and massive external stack with 3 shaped shafts; single-light ground-floor windows to either side. Left end with gabled 2-light dormer (with coved stone to gable-wall); 2 and 3-light windows below. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Bolton Journal (Pictorial Bolton Series, CXLII): 1887-).
Listing NGR: SD7193511422
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476261
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bolton Journal in Pictorial Bolton Series CXLII, (1887)
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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