Chorcliffe House

SD 5817 NW CHORLEY HOLLINSHEAD STREET

10/54 No.2 (Chorcliffe House) 29.11.1978 GV II

Large town house, early C19, now flats. Red brick in Flemish bond, stone dressings, two-span slate roof with one chimney at left gable, 2 at right gable, 2 on the front ridge and one on the rear ridge. Deep double-pile plan of 6 bays. Three storeys with stone plinth and coping; 3rd bay, breaking forwards slightly, has a wide elliptical-headed doorway with margin lights, Doric demi-columns, double doors, triglyph-fluted frieze and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars and 2 pierced bands, 2nd bay has a service door, with a round-headed and a square window on one sill to the right of it; otherwise, all openings have sashed windows with glazing bars, stone sills and heads (splayed at ground and 1st floors). Right return wall has 3 windows on each upper floor (mostly sashed with glazing bars). Rear has a canted bay to full height of 3rd bay (large sashed tripartite windows with glazing bars on first 2 floors, sashed windows on 3 sides of 2nd floor); doorway with rectangular stone case in 4th bay, 2 stairlight windows above (the 1st Venetian, the 2nd round- headed, and both with Gothick glazing bars in the heads); other windows in this wall sashed with glazing bars. Interior: original staircase, and some original fireplaces, but not fully inspected.

Listing NGR: SD5831317810