217-227, LOWERHOUSE LANE

BURNLEY

SD8032NE LOWERHOUSE LANE, Lowerhouse 906-1/11/224 (North side) 29/09/77 Nos.217-227 (Odd)

GV II

Row of 6 cottages. c1820-30. For Dugdale's Lowerhouse mill; altered. Watershot coursed sandstone (Nos 219 to 223 painted), stone slate roofs to Nos 217 and 219, Welsh slate to Nos 221-227; rendered brick chimneys. Rectangular double-depth plan, each cottage single-fronted. 2 low storeys, one window each, with a continuous square-cut gutter cornice; doorways to the right, all with plain surrounds and altered doors; windows with raised sills and rectangular lintels, all now with altered glazing and those at No.221 now with widened openings containing C20 bowed glazing; ridge chimneys. Left gable coated with pitch. INTERIORS not inspected. Part of a relatively intact early C19 industrial colony at Lowerhouse, forming a group with Nos 204-238 opposite (qv) and with Nos 2-22 Lowerhouse Fold adjoining to the right (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8096332779