| House and stable block now offices and a vacant building House, now offices. c.1860. Ashlar with slate roof. Large L-shaped house of 4 x 7 bays with 2 storeys (plus attic level). Projecting plinth, continuous bands at first floor and eaves level and coped parapet which is raked over the principal gables. Bays 1 and 4 are slightly advanced and gabled. Entrance porch in bay 3 has enriched doors beneath a Tudor arch, diagonal buttresses and a pierced parapet. Windows generally have 2 or 3 lights with double-chamfered mullions and transoms and hoodmoulds. Other windows include square and canted bays (the later with a castellated parapet) and oriels at first floor level. Ornate finials to gables. Steeply pitched roof. Many internal features survive. Former residence of Abel Buckley, cotton manufacturer. |
