Dyke Nook Lodge

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SD 72 NE 5/39

ACCRINGTON WHALLEY ROAD Dyke Nook Lodge

(Formerly listed as Dyke Nook)

GV II

House, dated 1907, by Walter Brierley; now LCC children's home. Unequally coursed sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof with swept eaves covering kneelers, two chimneys on ridges and one at right gable. Three bays and two storeys in C17 vernacular form. Asymmetrical, with varied forms of mullioned windows. Front door at rear, in two-storey outshut between two unequal gabled wings, has moulded surround and a label enclosing lintel dated "1907"; there is a six-light mullion and transom stairlight above and right of this, a narrow stairlight at left end, and four other windows.

Left wing projects (continuing as screen wall with arch), right wing has a window on each floor, the upper of four lights with a label. Right return wall has three windows, one at ground floor of projecting chimney stack. Principal facade to garden has very prominent "summer parlour" with semi-pyramidal roof at junction of second and third bays, with all principal windows left of it: at ground floor a large fourteen-light mullion and transom window with two king mullions and a straight moulded dripstone on consoles, and a six-light window with a label; at first floor two six-light windows with king mullions. There is a walled yard with outbuildings at right end.

Interior: middle room ("hall") has C17-style panelling, with linenfold above stone fireplace which is lettered "19" "HVMB" "07"; and folding doors to parlour. Garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll is mainly altered, but perimeter wall (q.v.) preserved.

Listing NGR: SD7565829728