Description

SD 81 SE ROCHDALE WOODHOUSE LANE

6/126 Woodhouse, East
- Cottage and
attached cottages

G.V. II

House. "W B 1709"(William and Michael Bentley) on door
lintel. Coursed rubble with stone dressings and stone slate
roof. 3-unit hearth-passage plan with projecting porch of
slightly later date, projecting cross-wing to left, a
single-storey addition to left and a later 2-storey wing to
rear, now being used on 2 cottages. The 2 storey house has
double chamfered mullion windows, two of 2 lights to the
gabled cross-wing and 3 lights to the other two units of the
ground floor; each has a hoodmould. The porch has a coped
gabel with kneelers and ball finials. A new door has at
some stage been inserted into the house-part when it was
used as a separate cottage. The upper floor has two 2-light
double chamfered windows to the crosswings, 4-light above
the porch, 3 above the hall and 7-light to the right (now
6). Quoins and coped gables with kneelers and ball finials.
The chimney stacks have moulded cornices. The added wing to
the rear has four flush chamfered 3-light mullioned
windows with hoodmoulds only to the ground floor, square-
cut monolithic door jambs, ball finials and a central
chimney stack.

Listing NGR: SD8590914920

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26367829

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Recommended Books

• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)