Description

BURNLEY

SD8332SE MANCHESTER ROAD 906-1/19/84 (West side) 29/09/77 No.147 (Formerly Listed as: MANCHESTER ROAD (West side) No.147 Fern Hill)

GV II

Villa, now residential home. c1850-60, slightly altered. Sandstone ashlar (now ribbon-pointed), hipped slate roof. Rectangular double-depth double-fronted plan (plus C20 addition to rear). 2 storeys over cellars, 3 windows, symmetrical, the centre breaking forwards; with clasping corner pilasters, a plain frieze and moulded cornice, and a low parapet with a segmental pediment to the centre. The centre has a rectangular porch with corner pilasters, a semi-elliptical headed outer archway with imposts, moulded head and keystone, and an entablature with modillioned cornice and panelled parapet with triangular-headed centre; a narrow one-light window in each side with pilastered surround and stained glass; and panelled and glazed inner doorway with narrow side lights and a fanlight with stained glass; and, above the porch, a segmental-headed window with a shouldered architrave. Otherwise, the ground floor has canted bay windows with cornices and parapets, sashed without glazing bars; and the 1st floor has windows with plain surrounds and altered glazing. Central chimney with dentilled cornice. The 3-window right-hand return wall has windows sashed without glazing bars at ground floor, altered above. The rear has (inter alia) a full-height round-headed arch in the centre containing a doorway at ground floor and a stair-window above. INTERIOR: staircase with ornamental cast-iron balusters, stained-glass window; some moulded plaster cornices; mahogany fireplace surround in front left room.





Listing NGR: SD8355532110

External Links

• Wikidata Q26537482

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990