Nos. 1 & 3 Lilycroft Place (including garden wall, gate piers, gates and outbuildings)

Nos. 1 & 3 Lilycroft Place

This is an irregular L-shaped building now divided into two separate dwellings, constructed from slender sandstone bricks laid in diminishing courses with ashlar dressings and finished with a stone slate roof. The building is accompanied by a garden wall, gate piers, gates, and outbuildings, all of which form part of the listing.

The front (south) elevation comprises four bays, with bay 1 forming No. 1 and bays 2-4 forming No. 3. A stone dentil cornice runs across the front, and the elevation is punctuated by large two-light stone mullioned windows with ashlar surrounds. No. 1 features a window to each floor (both with uPVC glazing) and a doorway to the ground floor right with a painted ashlar surround and a modern, partly-glazed door. A modern, single-storey, open timber lean-to with a corrugated plastic roof is attached to the front of No. 1, though this is not of special interest. No. 3 has a central doorway fronted by a mid-late 20th-century glazed porch with a random rubblestone base. Windows to each floor of the outer bays contain top-hung timber casements. Two rendered ridge stacks project from the roof, the eastern one being heavily truncated.

The west side elevation shows a rendered gable end and the west wall of the lean-to, with a small window to the ground floor of the lean-to. The east side elevation features two large ashlar springers at the base of the gable. The rear (north) elevation is more complex. It comprises four bays with roughcast rendering and painted ashlar sills to the windows. The north-east corner, depicted on historic Ordnance Survey maps, has been demolished, probably in the mid-20th century. A mid-late 19th-century, one-and-a-half storey lean-to is attached to the western two-thirds of this elevation, shared between the two properties and forming a catslide roof, with another small stack rising from it. Recessed doorways with modern doors open to the ground floor of each bay. Bays 2 and 3 have windows to the left of each door: a top-hung casement and a four-light fixed pane window respectively. A top-hung casement lights the first floor of bay 2, and a five-light casement window the first floor of bay 3. The first floor of bay 4 has an enlarged window with uPVC glazing.

Interior of No. 3

No. 3 contains two large rooms to both floors in the main range, with two additional rooms to both floors in the rear lean-to. Ground-floor doors have been replaced, whilst first-floor doors are four-panelled. Windows in the main range rooms have angled reveals and window seats. A small stair hall set behind the entrance porch contains an enclosed stair flight with a room off to each side. The principal ground-floor rooms have painted beams running east-west and flanking chimneybreasts, with an original timber fire surround in the eastern room. The western room has a 20th-century fire surround and electric fire. A door in the east wall originally led down to the basement but is now sealed off; a doorway in the west wall leads into the rear lean-to containing a modern kitchen with an original chimneybreast. A doorway in the east wall of the kitchen leads into the eastern lean-to room, believed to have originally served an agricultural function, with a lower floor level accessed via stone steps, a stone flag floor, and exposed ceiling joists with some iron hooks. A trapdoor to the floor above is now fixed in place. The room contains a late 20th-century toilet and sink. The first-floor bedrooms in the main range have chimneybreasts and painted beams. A later partition wall with internal windows has been inserted to the rear of the western bedroom to create a corridor accessing the rear lean-to. The first-floor lean-to rooms have exposed purlins and a lower floor level; the western room contains a bathroom, whilst the eastern room has a trapdoor access to the room below (hidden under later coverings) and was probably originally a hayloft. The east wall has 20th-century panelling.

Interior of No. 1

No. 1 contains one room to each floor of the main range with an additional room to each floor of the rear lean-to. Modern laminate flooring laid on concrete covers the ground floor; the first floor retains original floorboards and has six-panelled doors. The ground floor contains a modern kitchen in the lean-to and chimneybreasts to both floors in the main range. The ground-floor room has two painted beams running east-west, identical to those in No. 3, a modern fireplace, and an enclosed stair flight to the south-west corner with a concertina-style, panelled timber door at the bottom step and an under-stair storage area with a six-panelled door. The first-floor lean-to room has an exposed painted purlin and a modern bathroom. The first-floor room in the main range has a painted beam running north-south with a cut recess to its underside at the centre point. A hatch on the first-floor landing provides access to the roof. The roof is separated by a party wall between the roof spaces of No. 1 and No. 3, has flat-chamfered purlins, and a single queen post roof truss to the eastern end.

Subsidiary Features

The garden areas to the south and yard area to the north are enclosed by a low sandstone wall with mainly rounded copings. Simple stone gate piers with rounded heads exist to the south section of the wall in line with the entrance to No. 3. The western section of the wall, bordering Heaton Road, is taller and possibly later in date, and incorporates gate piers in the same style as those to the southern section with a wrought-iron vehicular gate and pedestrian gate. The rear yard area is paved with stone setts and flags and contains a range of small, single-storey, flat-roofed outbuildings (storage and outdoor toilets) to the north side with plank and batten doors.