Description

WORSLEY BARTON ROAD SD 70 SW (north-east side) 1/23 Nos. 2, 4, 6, 6A and 8 29/7/66 (The Packet House) G.V. II

Group of several houses. On site of 1760 packet house but largely of C19 including a considerable timber-framed wing of c.1850 which was built for the first Earl of Ellesmere. English garden wall bond brick with slate roof and timber framing with stone slate roof. An irregular 2, 3 and 4- storey range with a total of 4 bays and with wings and additions to rear. Bays 1 and 2 are brick and have 3-light timber-mullioned windows with flat brick arches, brick hoodmoulds and stone sills. Bay 2 is gabled. Picturesque shop front to left return. Coped gables with kneelers and finials. Bays 3 and 4 are timber-framed. Bay 3 has an ovolo- moulded door surround and a 3-light ovolo-moulded timber- mullioned window on each floor including to a gabled dormer window. Bay 4 projects as a large gabled crosswing. Each floor, and the gable,is jettied out on carved brackets. 3, 4 or 6-light ovolo-moulded timber mullion window to each floor, decorative framing to the second floor and enriched barge boards and finial. Gabled porch to right return. Clustered and single diagonally set chimney stacks. All in all a pleasing and picturesque composition which dominates the canal basin. The timber-framing is one of several examples for the 1st Earl of Ellesmere all of which are a particularly early revival.

Listing NGR: SD7835801220

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)