Westbourne House

Westbourne House is a house that has been converted into a nursery school. It was built in 1882 and altered in the 20th century. The structure is made of mass concrete, which is rendered and painted, and it features slate roofs. The building has two storeys plus an attic above cellars.

The entrance front, which faces west, includes a three-stage tower on the right topped with a slated pyramidal tent roof. This tower is blind, except for a narrow window on the ground floor, and is adorned with moulded string courses, buttresses on the first floor, and recessed panels with lozenge decoration on the second floor. To the left, the main range consists of two bays and features a wide projecting single-storey porch with a blind recess, a two-light mullioned window, and a doorway on the right. Below the parapet, there are square panels decorated with quatrefoils and rosettes.

The garden front, facing south, has a rectangular bay window projection against the lower storey of the tower, with two windows on each of the upper storeys. To the right, there is a two-storey canted bay window beneath a gable.

Inside, the entrance hall features an inscription 'EBD 1882' made of mosaic tiles. The staircase has turned balusters with pitch-pine handrails and newels. The newels are stop-chamfered and end with four gablets surrounding a central knob. The cellars have ample headroom, and the concrete walls are visible in some areas.

Westbourne House was built for a member of the Dawson family of Aldcliffe Hall, who are known to have experimented with concrete in other buildings on their estate.