Greenthorne

SD 71 NW TURTON (off) BROADHiIhD ROAD Edgworth

7/100 Greenthorne - GV II

Manufacturer's mansion, 1860, for James Barlow. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, 2-span slate roof with cross-gables, various chimneys. Rectangular plan, roughly 4x3 bays. Two and 2½ storeys, in free Gothic style, with steeply-pitched roofs and gables, some pointed arched doors and windows. Principal feature of the asymmetrical left side is a large 2-storey porch which rises above the eaves, has bands on 2 levels, sloped diagonal buttresses to the ground floor dying into chamfered corners at 1st floor, a triangular- headed moulded doorway offset to the right, a pointed light above the band to the left, a 1st floor window of 5 pointed lights, a parapet and a hipped monopitched roof running up into the gable of the stairwell. To the left of this the main features are a tall gabled dormer breaking the eaves, and beyond this a gabled crosswing with an oriel window at 1st floor and attic window of 2 pointed lights. To the right is a tall extruded chimney stack. Garden front (right return wall) has 2 gables with large 1st floor windows, between them at 1st floor a small window of 3 pointed lights, to the right at ground floor a canted bay window, and the rest of the ground floor is covered by a large rectangular conservatory with glazed walls and hipped glazed roof protected by a balustrade. Interior is little altered.

Listing NGR: SD7439517174