Laneside House Millbrook House Millbrook House and Attached Laneside House and Waterside House West and South Waterside House is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1984. Mixed-use residential and industrial. 1 related planning application.

Laneside House Millbrook House Millbrook House and Attached Laneside House and Waterside House West and South Waterside House

WRENN ID
calm-stair-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1984
Type
Mixed-use residential and industrial
Address
Laneside House Millbrook House Millbrook House and Attached Laneside House and Waterside House West and South Waterside House, Rochdale Road, Todmorden, OL14 7LA
OS grid reference
SD 933 236
Coordinates
53.70907, -2.10227
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

This is a long range of buildings forming four dwellings, dating to the early 18th century and the mid-19th century. The cottages have watershot masonry and a stone slate roof, while Waterside House is ashlar with a slate roof. The main range is three stories tall and has seven bays of windows. The first three bays feature double-chamfered mullioned windows: the first has four lights with five above, the second seven lights with five above, and the third a seven-light window with an altered 19th-century window of three large lights to the first floor, and five lights to the second floor, lacking two mullions. A blocked taking-in door with a cat-head in a low, pedimented gable is set between the second and third bays. Other bays have 19th-century square sash windows to the second floor, with wooden bay windows alongside the doorways. The ground floor has a six-light double-chamfered mullioned window beneath bays five and six. There are five stacks rising from the ridge.

Attached to the right-hand end of the main range is Waterside House, which projects forward and is two stories tall. It has three symmetrical bays facing the road, with quoins and a cornice. A semi-circular arched doorway has a fanlight enclosed by tapering pilasters and an open pediment. Large sash windows with plain stone surrounds and projecting sills are set above and either side of the doorway. An added bay, later in the 19th century, is attached to the right-hand return wall; this is semi-octagonal with a tripartite roof, a band, and deeply moulded cornice. It has long French windows to each face, with a large sash window to each canted side at the first floor. The west side exhibits three stilted arched windows (two blind), with a raised keystone and impost band. The east side has a large lateral stack.

The rear of the cottage range retains some double-chamfered mullioned windows. Attached at right angles is an early textile factory of two stories with large sash windows and a pointed arched window with Gothic glazing. The rear of Waterside House has a tall stair window with a semi-circular head and a Gothic glazed fanlight. Small, flat-faced mullioned windows of four and six lights are located either side of this, with a segmental arched opening below, now filled with a stepped window, the centre light of which is sash with a segmental head.

The interior of a ground floor room in Waterside House (south) features a modillion plaster cornice with a Greek key pattern frieze. The building is said to have been the first cotton factory in the town, originally run by the Fieldens.

Local climate

Laneside House Millbrook House Millbrook House and Attached Laneside House and Waterside House West and South Waterside House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Rochdale Canal Lock 20 Wadsworth Mill Lock Grade II 140 m
  2. Canal Bridge Grade II 185 m
  3. Dawson Weir House Grade II 190 m
  4. Rochdale Canal Lock 21 Shade Lock Grade II 314 m
  5. The Unitarian Church Grade I 317 m
  6. Lodge and Attached Entrance Piers to Dobroyd Castle Grade II 334 m
  7. Unitarian Lodge Grade II 345 m
  8. The Golden Lion Hotel Grade II 418 m
  9. Manchester and Leeds Railway Gauxholme Railway Bridge Over the Rochdale Canal Grade II 422 m
  10. Dobroyd Castle Grade II* 423 m