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Latitude: 53.7793 / 53°46'45"N
Longitude: -2.3653 / 2°21'55"W
OS Eastings: 376022
OS Northings: 431498
OS Grid: SD760314
Mapcode National: GBR CSXQ.QZ
Mapcode Global: WH96X.M8VL
Plus Code: 9C5VQJHM+PV
Entry Name: Moorside House
Listing Date: 9 March 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1362040
English Heritage Legacy ID: 183846
ID on this website: 101362040
Location: Hyndburn, Lancashire, BB5
County: Lancashire
District: Hyndburn
Civil Parish: Altham
Built-Up Area: Altham
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Altham St James
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: House
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SD 73 SE
3/43
ALTHAM
BURNLEY ROAD
Moorside House
(Formerly listed as Moor Side House)
II
House, c.1830. Scored stucco with quoins (painted white), moulded gutter cornice, stone slate roof with gable chimneys and copings. Double pile three-bay plan, with service wing to rear of first bay. Two storeys, symmetrical, in Perpendicular Gothic style: Tudor-arched doorway with hoodmould, large four-light stone mullion windows also with hoodmoulds. Right return wall has one similar three-light window on each floor, rear has large Tudor-arched stairlight with glazing bars (radiating in the head), and some sashed windows also with glazing bars.
Interior: stone staircase with iron twist balusters; moulded plaster ceiling frieze and alcove in drawing roam; original door furnishings, (panels of one door decorated with paintings of flowers possibly by Lydia Becker).
History: built by Hannibal Leigh Becker, chemical manufacturer; early home of Lydia Becker, pioneer of Women's Suffrage Movement botanist and painter.
Listing NGR: SD7602231498
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