Sunnyside Diocesan Conference Centre

SD 82 NW RAWTENSTALL BURNLEY ROAD Crawshawbooth

2/165 Sunnyside Diocesan 7.6.1971 Conference Centre (formerly listed under Crawshaw Booth) - II

Large house, various builds of uncertain date, but substantially late C19. Coursed sandstone, hipped stone slate roof concealed by a parapet, with various chimneys. U-plan, 5 bays with receding wings. Two storeys, symmetrical E-plan facade in Jacobean Style with projecting 5-sided 2-storey porch and similar 2-storey bays with corner finials; porch has wide Tudor-arched windows with Y-tracery and latticed doors in left and front sides, sashed windows above, and present door under arched canopy in right side; 2nd and 4th bays have a 5-light mullion window on each floor, polygonal outer bays have similar windows on all sides on both floors. At left end is an old square-section rainwater spout with 3 fixing brackets lettered at the sides "M" and "F", a large decorated lead tank beneath dated "1695" (all these probably ex situ). Left return wall has inter alia a large projecting 2-storey bay with chamfered corners and large high-transomed window at ground floor, and a similar window in the wall to the rear. Interior: pendant plaster ceilings in 2 ground floor rooms of left wing; ex situ wood panelling, etc., said to be from Whalley Abbey.

Listing NGR: SD8091325126