121, Radcliffe Road

This is a park keeper’s lodge, now a house, dated 1854. It was built to serve Bolton’s first public park, established by the Earl of Bradford on his estate, but later closed by him. The building is rendered over stone and has a banded, scalloped roof.

The exterior presents a symmetrical design with paired gables and a central entrance, alongside a gabled wing set back to the left. A gabled porch shelters the main doorway, which features a double chamfered, 4-centred archway with diagonal boarding and ornamental strap hinges on the door. Two-light mullioned windows with ogee-arched, trefoiled leaded glazing are positioned on either side of the doorway. A painted coat of arms of the Bradford family is in high relief beneath the apex of the right-hand gable, and a trefoiled panel displaying the date 1854 balances it on the left. A further two-light window with foiled lights is featured in the recessed wing to the left. An ornamental stone stack rises from the wing, while a heavy diagonal stack is positioned between the paired gables of the main block. The gables are coped with finials, and ridge cresting is present on the left-hand gable and the wing. The interior was not inspected.