20 Bolton Road

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

Includes Nos. 1-9 Cross Street and No. 1 Bath Street. Terrace of 8 houses. 1896. By Grayson and Ould. Red and yellow brick with stone and terracotta dressings, hipped tile roof. One storey with attic, 10 bays, end bays recessed by one bay, 2nd and 9th bays project, all 4 gabled. Weathered stone base, terracotta cornice to ground floor, 1st floor diapering, panelling, pinnacles and coping to gables. Ground floor has windows with chamfered stone lintels and 2- light leaded casements. Central bays to 1st floor have terracotta half dormers with cross-mullioned windows, crocketed gables with finials, traceried parapets and red brick aprons. Gabled bays have 5-light double-chamfered mullioned windows with transoms, centred blind lights with flanking pinnacles, friezes and cornices; all have leaded glazing. Entrances have stone surrounds, plank doors with leaded lights, some have flanking lights. 4 cross-axial stacks. Returns similar, with dormers. No. 20 was visited by King George V and Queen Mary in 1914.