Shore Hall

SD 91 NW, 1/35

LITTLEBOROUGH, HIGHER SHORE ROAD (east side), Shore Hall

2/1/67

G.V.

II*

House. "IB 1605" (James Bamford) on door lintel. Hammer-dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof. T-shaped hearth-passage plan with a total of five bays and two storeys. Quoins and projecting plinth. Door in bay two has heavily chamfered surround with carved stops and a Tudor-arched lintel. The house-part has a 3-(fire window) and 5-light mullion and transom window both having been enlarged in C20, bay one a 3-light mullion and bay five a 5-light mullion window. 3, 2, 2, 2, and 4-light mullion windows to first floor. All windows are double-chamfered and have hoodmoulds, some mullions are cavetto-moulded. Shaped eaves gutter brackets. Left gable is coped with ball finial; whereas the cross wing which was originally gabled is now hipped. Three diagonally set chimney stacks with cornices, the one on the right return projecting. 2 and 3-light windows to right return and 4- light windows to left return (in each case one is a C20 copy). Similar heavily chamfered door surround to rear which has a 2-light double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullion window. The rear of the cross wing has 3 and 4-light flat- faced mullion windows of C18 date and a lean-to extension against its gable. INTERIOR: Imposing stone fireplace in house-part has elliptical head, cyma-moulded surround and ogee-moulded cornice. The fireplace may replace a former smoke hood. Hewn beams, chamfered and one forked. A fine and well preserved example of an early C17 yeoman's house.

H. Fishwick, History of Rochdale, 1889.

Listing NGR: SD9229117224