17 Milnrow Road

House and domestic workshop. early C19 (built prior to 1824). Alterations of the ground floor to a shop in the late C19.

MATERIALS: coursed, watershot masonry with ashlar dressings.

PLAN: the building is rectangular with a canted east elevation adjacent to Pickup Street.

EXTERIOR: the three-storey, three-bay building stands forward from the adjoining buildings, abutting the pavement on the north side of Milnrow Road. The symmetrical front elevation is constructed of coursed, squared sandstone blocks laid watershot (the upper edges of the blocks tilted slightly outwards) with a plinth, larger alternating quoins and a slightly projecting eaves course topped by a moulded stone gutter. The ground floor has a central door with a shop window to each side. The doorway has a timber surround with a slightly-projecting moulded canopy. There are two circular iron bosses beneath the canopy. The plain board door is recessed within the doorframe with two stone steps. The large shop windows are presently both boarded up; the timber shop fronts of pilasters, consoles, fascia and cornice remain (as seen about 1910 in a historic photograph). The first floor has three vertical rectangular windows with stone surrounds, the central one now bricked up. The outer windows now have three-light timber casements. The second floor has a ten-light, stone-mullioned workshop window. The stone lintel forms part of the slightly projecting eaves course.

The west gable wall is only partially visible as it is abutted by the recessed adjoining house. It is constructed of coursed, squared sandstone blocks laid watershot, with a plinth of narrower blocks and quoining to the outer, right-hand corner. The second floor has a vertical rectangular taking-in door or window with stone sill and lintel, now bricked up.

The east end wall is angled beneath the roof apex to follow the bend in Pickup Street. It is constructed of watershot, coursed, squared sandstone blocks with quoins to the outer, left-hand corner. To the left-hand side is a small, inserted window at second-floor level. To the right-hand side is a wide doorway with a timber lintel, now blocked up. Above, the first and second floors both have a wide, rectangular window with a timber lintel and four-light timber casements.

The rear (north) elevation is constructed of roughly-coursed rubblestone with evidence of much alteration, probably in connection with the former attached buildings. At the right-hand end of the first floor is an inserted doorway with a cement frame and metal external stair. On the first and second floors are a series of blocked window openings. Two modern, square windows have been inserted on the second floor.

INTERIOR: not inspected.