Description

PRESTON

SD53SW FYLDE ROAD
941-1/1/138 (South side)
25/01/89 No.99
Moss Cottage

II

Cotton manufacturer's house, now in multiple occupation. 1818
(dated on rainwater head), with later C19 addition; altered.
Red brick (earlier portion recently cleaned of paint), with
sandstone dressings and slate roofs. Plan composed of 2
distinct elements: the original small villa double-depth and
double-fronted, and a receding large crosswing added to the
left. The villa, in Regency Gothick style, a symmetrical
2-storey 3-window range, has a moulded 4-centred arched
doorway in the centre, with a recessed studded plank door and
flanking arched niches, a tall 2-light window above, and two
3-light windows on each floor, all these windows with arched
lights and those at ground floor with hoodmoulds; and a
shallow hipped and slightly swept roof with oversailing
boarded eaves, and side-wall chimneys. Right-hand return wall
has 3 similar windows at ground floor and 2 above, all of 2
lights; rear has (inter alia) a pointed arched doorway and a
tall stair-window. The added wing, which is larger and in
neo-Tudor style, has a gabled facade with kneelers and finials
(etc), a large canted mullion-and-transom bay window at ground
floor with a pierced traceried parapet, 2 cross-windows at 1st
floor and a 3-light mullioned window to the attic, with
hoodmoulds; and a steeply-pitched roof with clustered and
corniced stone chimneys on a square stack. The long left
return wall, in similar style, has (inter alia) a shallow
gabled wing. History: built for William Taylor, then manager
of Horrocks's Moss Mill (q.v.) and subsequently owner of the
former Tulketh Mill, a leading figure in the town until his
death in 1852.

Listing NGR: SD5321030013

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Guild at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26502441

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