Numbers 36, 38, 40 And 42 Including Attached Loomshop

SE0749 ADDINGHAM C.P. THE ROOKERY, BOLTON ROAD

8/116 Nos 36, 38, 2.1.73 40 and 42 including attached loomshop

G V II

Row of 8 back-to-back cottages, now 4 through houses, with loomshop attached at right angles to No 42. Late C18. Watershot masonry, dressed quoins, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 lst-floor windows. North-east front has 2 sets of paired doorways with tie-stone jambs with, to either side, 4-paned sash windows with plain stone surrounds, the lintels with tooled decoration. Same over to 1st floor. Left- hand return wall has coped gable and stone stack. 2 other brick stacks to ridge. Rear has identical fenestration as front but with inserted window c1984 with concrete surrounds over doorway of No 38. Loomshop has 6 doorways with monolithic jambs to ground floor and 6 sashed windows to lst-floor of former loomshop. Mono-pitched roof.

Interior: No 42 retains original narrow staircase set between the back-to-back wall and 2 original simple fireplaces with raised monolithic jambs, one with basket-grate. An important example of working class housing, retaining for the most part its original fenestration.

Listing NGR: SE0785649850