Barcroft

SD 81 SE ROCHDALE BOLTON ROAD (south side) 6/30 No. 193 (Barcroft) II

House,"1894 BC & JB" on door lintel.By Edgar Wood. Rendered brick with stone dressings and clay tile roof, (replacement for stone slate). Long 2-storey picturesquely planned range with projecting gable wing at front, a single storey brick wing to the rear left and the driveway passing through an opening towards the left giving access to the rear. 4 bays, a first floor flat-faced mullioned bay window above the driveway in bay 1 (the whole of which does not appear on the Architect's original drawings). Bay 2 has a raked strapwork band (which continues round the rest of the house) between stepped windows on two levels which light the staircase. Bay 3 has an elliptical-headed doorway with inscribed lintel, decorative strapwork panel and original door to the left of a low 5-light mullion and transom window; the gable has a projecting bargeboard and applied decorative timber pattern. Bay 4 has a diagonally set Tudor bay-window, square in plan with mullion and transom windows to the ground floor and mullioned to the first. All window have leaded lights. The house expresses Wood's intention to revive vernacular building techniques.

Listing NGR: SD8745611719