Windy Nook

SD 90 SE, 5/323

SADDLEWORTH, THORNLEY LANE (south side)

No. 1 (Windy Nook)

19/6/67

G.V.

II

House and cottage. "HS 1648" (Henry Shaw) on door lintel the cottage being added in late C17 or early C18. Squared rubble with graduated stone slate roof and brick stack. 2-unit former baffle-entry plan with two storeys and the 1-bay cottage added to right. Projecting plinth. Door to right with basket-headed lintel and chamfered surround. The front is otherwise blind but for a C20 window. The rear has a 2- light (fire-window) 4-light and 3-light window (each with one or two mullions removed) on the ground floor and two 3-light windows on the first floor. All windows are double-chamfered with cavetto-moulded mullions. Flat-faced and double- chamfered mullion windows to gable one of which has been turned into a door. Ridge chimney stack. The cottage has double-chamfered mullion windows to front and rear, the front partly obscured by a later lean-to; the rear with a mullion removed. INTERIOR: beam pattern gives evidence of former inglenook fireplace. Tie-beam roof truss of massive proportions.

Pennine Magazine Vol. 5, No.5, 1984, p.20.

Listing NGR: SD9676704068