3, Worsley Road

WORSLEY WORSLEY ROAD SD 70 SW (south side) 1/66 No.3 - G.V. II

House and shop. Early C18. Rendered stone with graduated stone slate roof and stone dressings. 3 x 2 bays with 3 storeys. Door between bays 1 and 2 flanked by 2 and 3-light casement windows. All the other windows i.e. one more on the ground floor and 3 on the first and second have 1, 2 or 3 lights and chamfered stone mullions (double-chamfered in some cases). Coped gables with kneelers and finial. Ridge and gable chimney stacks with diagonally set shafts. 2 chamfered door surrounds and 6-panel doors at first floor level in right gable-end and a small addition with hipped roof. Similar windows to sides and rear. 1807 line drawing in F. Mullineux The Duke of Bridgewater's Canal, 1959. The building has been used variously in the past as a nail-maker's shop, a library, a reading room and a house.

Listing NGR: SD7483500468