Description

SJ 78 NE
7/47

BOWDON
GREEN WALK
(south side)

Erlesdene

II

House, now flats. 1873. Mills and Murgatroyd. Rock-faced
stone, ashlar and decorative slate roof. Asymmetrical plan
with 2 storeys (plus attic) and 8 x 5 bays. Victorian
Gothic/Elizabethan. Projecting plinth, quoins, bands,
projecting stone eaves, steep roof, dormer-gables to bays 6
and 8, shaped gables to bays 2 and 4. Bays 1 to 3 have 1, 2
and 3-light mullion windows with transoms and carved
overpanels on the ground floor; sash-windows and an oriel
window on the first floor. Entrance porch in bay 4 has
arched keystone openings on Corinthian columns, weathered
angle-buttresses, cornice, parapet and finials. Above is a
2-light window and a shaped gable with a cusped-light and
finials. 4-storey tower in bay 5 has 2-storey castellated
oriel window supported on column with enriched capital and
carved beast; modillion eaves cornice, pierced parapet and
elaborate weather-vane. Bays 6, 7 and 8 have various 1, 2
and 3-light mullion windows, some with relieving arches.
The east elevation has 3 gables, some traceried lights with
leaded glass and a canted bay window.

Listing NGR: SJ7562586983

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26320712

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Recommended Books

• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments