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Description: Millbrook House & attached Laneside House and Waterside House west and south

Address: Waterside House West And South Laneside House And Millbrook House Rochdale Road Todmorden Calderdale OL14 6NU

Grade: II

Group detail: Rochdale Road (east side)

Full description:
Long range forming 4 dwellings. Early C18 and mid C19. Watershot masonry and stone slate roof to cottages, ashlar with slate roof to Waterside House. Long 3-storey range has 7 bays of windows. Those to 1st 3 bays are double chamfered mullioned. Reads: 4 lights with 5-lights over. 2nd bay, 7 lights with 5 lights over. Set between 2nd and 3rd bay is doorway to ground floor and taking-in door to 2nd floor (blocked) with cat-head in low pedimented gable. 3rd bay, 7-light window with altered C19 window of 3 large lights to 1st floor, and of 5 lights to 2nd floor (lacks 2 mullions). Other bays have C19 square sash windows to 2nd floor with wooden bay windows set either side of doorways. Ground floor has 6-light double chamfered mullioned window under bays 5 and 6. 5 stacks to ridge. Attached to right hand end of this range is Waterside House which breaks forward and is of 2 storeys. 3 symmetrical bays face road. Quoins, cornice. Semi-circular arched doorway with fanlight enclosed by tapering pilasters and open pediment. Over and to either side large sash windows with plain stone surrounds and projecting sills. Attached to right hand return wall is added bay, later C19 with 2 storey semi-octagonal bay under tripartite roof. Band, deeply moulded cornice. Long 'french' windows to each face with large sash window to each canted side at 1st floor. West side has 3 stilted arched windows (2 blind), with raised keystone and impost band. East side has large lateral stack. Rear of cottage range preserves some double chamfered mullioned windows. Attached at right angles is early textile factory of 2 storeys with large sashed windows and pointed arched window with Gothic glazing. Rear of Waterside House has tall stair window with semi-circular head with Gothic glazed fanlight. To either side small flat faced mullioned windows of 4-lights and 6 lights under which is segmental arched opening now filled with stepped window the centre light of which is sashed and has segmental head. Interior of ground floor room to Waterside House (south) has modillion plaster cornice with Greek key pattern frieze. Is said to be the first cotton factory in the town run originally by the Fieldens.