Description

OLDHAM

SD9204NE GREAVES STREET
780-1/6/36 (East side)
23/01/73 No.5
Ponsonby and Carlile Office

GV II

Office building. 1901-2. By Edgar Wood. Ashlar faced, brick to
rear, with stone flagged roof. 2 storeys, 3-window range
articulated by pilasters, with wide central entrance with
elongated keystone raking out to cut high string course over.
Initials H.B. on keystone, and also on rainwater heads, which
are dated 1902. Carved trees in shoulder each side of lintel.
Paired doors with narrow stained glass lights, and brass
name-plates. Blind mullioned band above the door. Bands of
5-light leaded mullioned and transomed windows each side of
entrance, with segmentally-arched heads. Similar windows above
have timber lintels below eaves. Wrought-iron brackets to
sharply overhanging eaves. 3 gabled dormers in roof. End wall
stacks. Rear elevation of brick with central canted
full-height bay with parapet that continues to left.
Overhanging eaves over right-hand, and 2 heavy gabled dormers
in roof.

Listing NGR: SD9276904990

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571481

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)