2, 4 And 6, Bridge Street

SD 91 SW MILNROW BRIDGE STREET (north side) 3/77 Nos. 2, 4 and 6 24/1/67

• II Milnrow Chapel now cottages. Early C18 with later alterations. Hammer-dressed watershot stone with graduated stone slate roof. 3 bays and 2 storeys but formerly a galleried chapel. Quoins. 3 windows on each floor have 3 to 6-lights with flat-faced stone mullions (some mullions removed and other lights blocked). Door with moulded segmental-headed surround has a pediment with central shield on Ionic columns. A second door has a square-cut surround. The whole of the front appears to have been rebuilt, the doorcase formerly having been at first floor level approached by a flight of steps. The left return retains some original 3-light chamfered mullion windows, 2 of which have arched lights with recessed spandrels. 2-light mullion windows to rear which has been partly rebuilt and rendered. None of the interior survived the conversion to cottages. Illustration (prior to conversion) in H. Fishwick, History of Rochdale, 1889.

Listing NGR: SD9261812785