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Alder House

A Grade II* Listed Building in Bolton-by-Bowland, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.9496 / 53°56'58"N

Longitude: -2.3583 / 2°21'29"W

OS Eastings: 376580

OS Northings: 450451

OS Grid: SD765504

Mapcode National: GBR CQZR.7X

Mapcode Global: WH95Y.RZ5J

Plus Code: 9C5VWJXR+VM

Entry Name: Alder House

Listing Date: 16 November 1954

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1072207

English Heritage Legacy ID: 183213

ID on this website: 101072207

Location: Ribble Valley, Lancashire, BB7

County: Lancashire

District: Ribble Valley

Civil Parish: Bolton-by-Bowland

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Bolton by Bowland St Peter and St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

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Description


BOLTON-BY-BOWLAND HOLDEN LANE

SD 75 SE

4/41 Alder House
16.11.1954
- II*


House, 'TW 1708' on plaque. Sandstone rubble with stone slate roof.
Double-pile plan with end stacks and central 3-storey gabled porch.
3 storeys. Windows have an inner cyma moulding and outer chamfer.
On each side of the porch, on the ground and first floor, is an
8-light mullioned and transomed window with hood. On the 2nd floor,
on each side, is a 3-light stepped mullioned window. The upper
storeys of the porch oversail on a moulded string. On the 1st floor
is a 6-light mullioned and transomed window with a stepped head, a
segmental head to the lower central light, and a hood with spiral
stops. On the 2nd floor is a stepped mullioned window with segmental
heads to the lights and with a hood with spiral stops. The outer
doorway is chamfered with a shaped lintel, with a date plaque over,
and with a hood with spiral stops. The inner doorway is cyma moulded
with a Tudor arch. The porch and right-hand gables have copings with
footstones. At the rear are a 5-light mullioned window and 2 cross
windows, with inner ovolo and outer chamfer, a one-light ovolo-
moulded window with shaped head, and several windows with re-used C17th
dressings. Inside there is a stair with 2 flights of stone around a
closed well, continuing up to the 2nd floor as an open-well closed-
string stair with square newels and turned balusters. On the 1st
floor there is oak partitioning, and doors, of raised and fielded
panels. The only roof truss visible at time of survey has an
interrupted tie beam above floor level, braced downwards to a main
floor joist.


Listing NGR: SD7658050451

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