Melling Clough

A row of four cottages dating from 1837, located on Bacup Road in Todmorden. The cottages are constructed of watershot masonry with a stone slate roof and demonstrate Vernacular Revival style. They feature quoins and are two storeys high with four bays per cottage. Each bay originally had a doorway with tie-stones and a chamfered surround; the doorway to number 254 was altered to create a window, integrating the cottage with number 252. Each bay also features a double-chamfered mullioned window of three lights. Decorative moulded brackets support the gutter. There are three stacks on the ridge. A two-storey, single-cell extension, rendered and with a flat roof, was added to number 252 around 1983. A date tablet, set within the spandrels of a quatrefoil, is positioned above the former doorway to number 254. These cottages bear a strong resemblance to numbers 6 to 36 (even) Square Road, which date from 1795 and 1809, suggesting their survival represents an unusual vernacular example, despite a stylistic approximation to Tudor Revival architecture.