Redcroft And Fencegate And Adjoining Garden Wall

MIDDLETON ROCHDALE ROAD SD 80 NE (north-west side) 2/22 Nos. 33 and 35 (Redcroft and Fencegate) and - adjoining garden wall. - II 2 houses. 1895. By Edgar Wood. Brick, rendered on the first floor, with stone dressings and clay tile roof. Total of 4 bays and 2 storeys with attics and a wing to the rear. Dentilled first floor band. Canted 2-storey bay windows in bays 1 and 4, the latter rising through the eaves to be terminated in a coped parapet. Each has 7-light flat-faced stone mullion windows with leaded lights on each floor and transoms on the ground floor only. Door in bay 3 with glazed panels, side lights and an elliptical-arched head with brick and stone voussoirs. Brick-mullioned windows in bay 2 with semi-elliptical lights above. 4 and 2-light mullioned first floor windows and a 6-light window in the gable which spans over bays land 2 and is balanced by a gabled dormer window in bay 4. Ridge and gable chimney stacks. Symmetry is consciously avoided, the porch to Redcroft being on the left return. Brick-mullioned windows to sides and rear. The garden wall is of alternating Portland stone and iron-railed sections on a rubble base. It incorporates a gate portal with ogee lintel. Redcroft was the home of Edgar Wood until about 1916.

Listing NGR: SD8706306612