Former Lodge To Watermillock Gate House

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