19-23 Park Road

Architectural Description from National Heritage List Text Entries, © Historic England 2021.

19-21 Park Road. Pair of houses. 1894. By Douglas and Fordham. Brick with stone dressings and timber-framed 1st floor, hipped tile roof with gablets. 2 storeys, 6 bays. Jettied 1st floor with end bays projecting under jettied gables. Ground floor has double- chamfered-mullioned bay windows, with transoms of 4 lights to central bays of 5 lights and canted to end bays. 1st floor has 4-light canted oriels with decorated timber heads, 2nd and 5th bays have 3-light windows. Entrances in round-arched recesses with labels, half-glazed doors and doorcases. Stack in roof slope and return lateral stacks, all with twisted shafts. Stack to rear. Rear similar, with privies.

Bridge Cottage, 23 Park Road. House. 1894. By Douglas an d Fordham. Irregular flint on brick base with stone dressings, tile roof with hipped end. 2 storeys, 2 bays with canted corner bay and one-bay return to Bridge Street. Corner bay projects under shaped gable, jettied 1st floor. Cornice to ground floor. Windows have ovolo mullions and leaded glazing, those to ground floor with transoms, that to 1st bay of 3 lights with ogee heads, small light with decorated lintel to right of entrance. 1st floor hs 4-light windows. Entrance in elliptical-arched recess with half-glazed door and doorcase; leaded glazing. Corner has canted bay window to ground floor and 4-light window to 1st floor both with ogee-headed lights. Return has tile-hung gable and canted bay with lights to angles and jettied stack Cross- axial stack with twisted shafts. Rear similar, small-paned casements, rear stack and privies. Home of Lord Leverhulme, 1896-7.

NOTE: No drawings of this terrace were found in the Drawn Together collections.