121, Radcliffe Road

BOLTON SD70NW RADCLIFFE ROAD 797-1/4/188 (East side) 26/04/74 No.121 II Park keeper’s lodge, now house. Dated 1854. Render over stone with banded scalloped roof. EXTERIOR: Single storey, comprising a symmetrical block of paired gables with central entrance, and a gabled wing set back to the left. Doorway in gabled porch with double chamfered 4-centred archway, diagonal boarding and ornamental strap hinges to door. 2-light mullioned windows each side of doorway, with ogee arched trefoiled lights with leaded glazing. Painted coat of arms of Bradford family in high relief beneath apex of right-hand gable, and a trefoiled panel carrying the date balancing it in the left. A further 2-light window with foiled lights in wing recessed to left. Ornamental stone stack to wing, and heavy diagonal stack rising between the paired gables of the main block. Gables are coped with finials, and there is ridge cresting to left hand gable and to wing. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the lodge was built to serve Bolton’s first public park, established by the Earl of Bradford on his estate, but later closed by him. (Bolton and District Civic Trust: Buildings of Bolton: Bolton: 1983-). Listing NGR: SD7272508960

Selected Sources

Books and journalsBuildings of Bolton, (1983)