The Brooklyn

SD 70 NW, 797-1/4/99

BOLTON

GREEN LANE (South side), The Brooklyn

(Formerly Listed as: GREEN LANE Brooklyn Hotel)

26/04/74

GV

II

House, now public house. Dated 1859. George Woodhouse, architect. Brick with stone dressings and graded slate roof. Gothic style, asymmetrically composed. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Entrance front forms wing of garden front, with doorway to left of centre, the return gable of the garden front to its left, Gabled porch with heavy buttressing and stilted archway sprung from low corbels; foiled 2-light window over the door, and paired foiled lancets to its right, in narrow bay terminating in embattled parapet with stone fleche. Parapet stepped up to dormer gable over right-hand bay, which has wide 4-light mullioned and transomed window to ground floor, and 3-light mullioned and transomed window above with foiled central light. Expressed stack to the right, and on the left hand gable, both with octagonal stone shafts. Garden front a simpler composition, forming a 3-window range. Advanced squared bay window to left, with French windows renewed, and two 2-light mullioned windows to right. Central oriel window to first floor, and paired foiled mullioned window to right, with renewed 4-light mullioned window to left. Western elevation also asymmetrically composed, forming a 4-window range. Wide gabled return of garden front to right has mullioned and transomed windows of 2 and 3 lights, and a recessed bay beyond it has doorway to right (aligned with front entrance), with foiled lights inset in door, and cusped trefoiled spandrels. Stepped mullioned and transomed window above the doorway, and embattled parapet with stone and wrought-iron fleche. Full-height bay window to left of doorway, squared to ground floor, and canted above; lower 4-light mullioned and transomed window, with carved stone mullions each side. Narrow bay with ornately foiled 2-light window on each floor, and steep gable with fretted bargeboards, to the left. Rear elevation comprises 2 asymmetrical gables with a central tower with embattled parapet and pyramidal roof; dated in raised lettering with initials 'T.S.W'. beneath the parapet.

Single storey extensions housing services, probably early C20. INTERIOR: retains some of the original detail, including Jacobean style plaster ceilings, and the staircase. (Bolton Journal, 18 July 1885, Pictorial Bolton Series: Bolton).

Listing NGR: SD7204707028