Description

SJ 78 NE,
7/51

BOWDON,
LANGHAM ROAD (north side),
No. 16

II

Includes No. 2 Heald Road. Two houses. c.1860. Rendered
brick, painted stone dressings and decorative slate roof. Five
bays in total, two storeys plus attic, small additions to rear
and a conservatory at the left in front of an additional two
bays. Fanciful Gothic style. Three steep gables dominate with
elaborate bargeboards and finials. End bays have canted bay
windows on ground floor with cusp-headed mullion windows,
stepped 4-light mullion windows on the first floor with
arched heads and hoodmoulds and 2-light arch-headed windows
to the attic with hoodmould. The central bay is similar but
has an elaborate oriel window. Bays 2 and 4 have projecting
porches with enriched octagonal piers to either side
supporting castellated pedestals with crocketed pinnacles
and an enriched parapet. The porchways have arched openings,
decorative niches and doors with arched lights. The
conservatory and side elevations are all treated similarly
and the rear also has 3 gables.

Listing NGR: SJ7641386649

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26608778

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