36, Mellalieu Street

MIDDLETON MELLALIEU STREET SD 80 NE (north side) 2/15 No. 36 - - II House. 1906. By E. Wood and J. H. Sellers. Brick with flat concrete roof. 3 bays and 2 storeys with later flat-roofed addition to rear and garage to left. A central door with glazed upper panels sits within a brick recess all below a leaded fanlight with a dentilled transom. 2-storey canted bay window in bay 1. Windows have timber mullions (and transoms on the ground floor) and leaded lights. They are of 2, 3 or 4 lights and have stone sills. The stone-coped parapet is enriched by diamond motifs in raised brickwork and rises to a higher level at each corner. Arched window to left return. Timber-mullioned windows to rear. Chimney stack to left. The house is the first which Wood designed with a reinforced concrete flat roof. It is notable for its use of the new materials as well as traditional materials and motifs in the same design. Illustrated in J. H. G. Archer, "Edgar Wood (1860-1935)" Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, vol. 73-4, 1963-4.

Listing NGR: SD8691606419