Description

SD 81 NE ROCHDALE SHAWCLOUGH ROAD (west side) 3/103 Healey Hall 25.10.1951

G.V. II

House. 1774 on keystone. Ashlar. Large central door and hall with one room to either side. Two rooms deep with single-storey side entrance wing and added wing to rear. 7- bay, 2-storey facade with triangular pediment over central 3. Doorway has Roman Doric attached columns, entablature and pediment with carved inscriptions to the tympanum and frieze, enclosing a semi-circular headed opening with keystone and fanlight. First floor sill band, cornice and parapet, carved armorial tympanum to pediment and central window with lugged and heeled architrave and fluted keystone. All the windows are original. Hipped roof. Rear: Palladian window to stair hall. Dormer windows to side as well as rear elevation. At rear of house is a stone recording the building of a stable in 1775 and also the datestone of the previous house, inscribed "CCDOC:T.RC.IC.AC.RB:ANO.DOMI.1618.non Aquilo impotens possit. diruere (the north wind does not have the power to destroy)IC.CC.MC.MDCCLXXIV. (1774)." The interior has good plasterwork of mid C19.

Listing NGR: SD8815215802

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