Garden Wall To Numbers 3, 4, 5 And 6 Manor House

SD 90 SE MOSSLEY QUICKWOOD

1/123 Nos. 3, 5 (Manor House) 4 and 6 (formerly listed under Roughtown Road) and 22.11.66 garden wall

G.V. II

4 houses, formerly the Manor House with 2 cottages at rear. Late C17, extended to the rear in C19. Hammer-dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof. 3 bays, 3 storey with a central entrance. Both front and rear are twin-gabled but the rear was extended in C19 to create Nos. 4 and 6. Imposing symmetrical facade the central door having a rusticated and pedimented 'surround. Rusticated quoins. Two 4-light ground floor windows, two 4 and a 2-light on first floor and two 3 and a 2-light on second floor. All have double-chamfered stone mullions. The gables have been heightened to accommodate a pediment (similar to that over the door) above the central window, and each has a blocked ashlar-dressed circular opening. The adjoining garden wall completes the composition and includes a rusticated pier. Footbridges at the rear give access to Nos. 4 and 6 which have both flat-faced mullion windows and others with stone lintels and sills. A. Holt. Story of Mossley, 1926.

Listing NGR: SD9757002938