17-21 Bolton Road

3 houses, now flats. 1890. By William Owen. Brick with stone dressings, stone chip roughcast to 1st floor, timber- framed gables and hipped tile roof. 2 storeys and attic, 7 bays; gabled 1st and 7th bays, the 7th bay has jettied 1st floor. Decorated bressumers and bargeboards. 2 buttresses piercing eaves and ending in dragons. Ground floor has double-chamfered-mullioned window with transoms and leaded glazing. Most of 3 lights with ovolo mullions, 1st and 7th bays have 4-light canted bay window that to 1st bay of 2 storeys. 1st floor has central 2-light mullioned window laced with similar gabled dormer. Flanking bays have 4- light timber oriels with cusped heads to lights, 2nd and 6th bays have similar 3-light rectangular oriels. 1st bay has 2 windows of 2 lights, one to canted bay, 7th bay has 4-light window. Attic has roof dormers to 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th bays, 3 lights, the inner ones gabled, the others flat topped; gables have 2-light windows. Entrances have Tudor heads, foliated spandrels, the central one with flat canopy and flanking 2-light window, that to 1st bay in recess with squat column supporting bressumer. 3 cross- axial stacks. Returns have projecting lateral stacks. Rear altered to provide access to flats, similar to above, and gables with stacks, brick quoins and gauged-brick cambered arches to windows; privies.