Description

BURNLEY

SD8032NE LOWERHOUSE LANE, Lowerhouse
906-1/11/225 (South side)
29/09/77 Nos.274-298 (Even)
(Formerly Listed as:
LOWERHOUSE LANE
Nos.274-302 (Even))

GV II

Row of 13 cottages. c1820-30. For Dugdale's Lowerhouse mill;
altered. Coursed squared sandstone (Nos 276, 286 and 298
rendered, No.294 painted) stone slate roofs (except Nos 274-8
and No.282 which have composition tiles and No.280 which has
Welsh slate) with brick chimneys mostly rendered. A long
double-depth range on an obtusely-angled plan following the
line of the road, canted back from No.288 which has a convex
curved front; each cottage single-fronted.
2 low storeys, one 1st-floor window each except Nos 284 and
298 which have 2; with a continuous square-cut gutter cornice
sloping downwards slightly from left to right; doorways to the
left, mostly with monolith jambs and lintels which are plain
except for small stopped chamfer, but some chisel-dressed, and
all with recessed altered doors. Vertical-rectangular windows
with raised sills and run-out rectangular lintels, all with
altered glazing (and that at ground floor of No. 290 enlarged
and furnished with a C20 small-paned bow). Lateral "3-pot"
ridge chimneys variously altered but mostly with water-tabling
and cornices.
INTERIORS not inspected.
Forms group with Nos 304-8 to the right (qv), and with Nos
295-317 (qv) on the opposite side of the road.

Listing NGR: SD8082332738

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537459

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)