Worsley was an ancient manor, and coal was mined there from the 14th century. In the 18th century the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater introduced a canal system to transport the coal to Manchester, which developed into the Bridgewater Canal.[1] The earlier listed buildings are houses and other structures in the manor. Many of the later listed buildings are associated with the coal mine and canal system, and are houses and other buildings that later developed as a result of it.
A country house that has subsequently been altered, including a restoration in 1894 by Douglas and Fordham. It is basically timber framed on a stone plinth, with a stone-slate roof, and the rebuilding has been in brick with stone dressings. It has a courtyard plan, the south range having five bays, with projecting east and west wings, and a two-storey gabledbay window. The windows are mullioned or mullioned and transomed.[3][4]
The hall has been considerably altered and extended on a number of occasions, and later converted into a restaurant. It is in brick, mainly rendered, and timber framing, with roofs of slate and stone-slate, and has two storeys. The south range has six bays, with a 19th-century porch, and at the end is 17th-century timber framed bay on a stone plinth, with mullioned and transomed windows, a jettied upper floor, and a gable. Elsewhere there are similar windows and timber framed bays.[5][6]
The house possibly contains earlier material, it was altered and rebuilt in the 19th century, and has been divided into three dwellings. The building is timber framed with a slate roof, and has an H-shaped plan, with a central range and cross-wings, and a rear wing. It has two storeys and a total of five bays. In the central range is a 19th-century porch and casement windows. The left wing is rendered. The right wing projects further and probably contains the oldest material. The upper floor is jettied but hidden behind a brick wall, and the gable is also jettied but is behind boarding. In the upper floor is a mullioned window.[7][8]
The house was altered and extended in 1853. It is in brick with traces of stone quoins, and has a clay tile roof with a copedgable. There are two storeys, three bays, and extensions at the rear. In the centre is a gabled porch with a Tudor arched opening. The windows have been altered, many of them 20th-century casements.[9]
Originally one house that was considerably rebuilt in the mid-19th century, and divided into two houses and two cottages. It is in brick with a slate roof, and consists of a two-storey house with two bays, a wing and outshut at the rear, an extension to the right, and single-storey cottages with attics to the left. The house has a central doorway with a datestone above, and casement windows. The cottages have a porch, mullioned windows with hood moulds, and gableddormer windows.[10]
A row of three houses that were considerably rebuilt in the mid-19th century. They are in brick with stone quoins and have a stone-slate roof, half-hipped to the right. There are two storeys, three bays, and a cross-wing forming a T-shaped plan. The first bay has a stone plinth, a timber framedgable, a jettied upper floor, and a mullioned and transomed window. In the other bays are porches, mullioned windows with hood moulds, and gables with ornate finials. At the rear are casement windows and dormers.[11]
The church was extended to the east in the late 18th century, the chancel, porch, baptistry and south aisle were added in 1842, and the vestry in the 20th century. It is in brick with a slate roof, and consists of a nave with a gabled north porch, a chancel, and a polygonal west baptistry. On the roof is a 19th-century bellcote, the windows on the sides have segmental heads, and at the end are three lancet windows.[12][13]
A house and shop in rendered stone with stone dressings and a stone-slate roof with copedgables and finials. It has three storeys and fronts of three and two bays. There are two casement windows, and the other windows are mullioned.[14]
A brick house on a projecting plinth with an eavescornice and a stone-slate roof. There are three storeys and a symmetrical front of three bays. The central doorway has a gabledcanopy, and the windows in the front are casement windows. Elsewhere there are casement, sash, and bay windows, and on the sides are three gables.[15][16]
Originally the cross-wing of a house that has been demolished, it is in brick, partly rendered, with a slate roof. The house has a double-depth plan, three storeys and an attic, and two bays.[17][18]
A house that was extended, mainly in the 19th century, first with a gabled wing to the left, and then with a parallel range at the rear. It is in brick with a slate roof and two storeys. The original part has three bays and contains replacement casement windows. The rear range is taller, and the extensions contain a mix of mullioned and transomed casement windows and sash windows. The stable block has an arched entrance.[19]
A row of three houses in pebbledashed brick with a slate roof. They have a double-depth plan, three storeys and one bay each. The windows are replacement casements with segmental heads.[20]
A house in roughcast brick with a slate roof and an L-shaped plan. It has two storeys with a front facing the road of two bays. The central doorway has a canopy and the windows are sashes. Above the left bay is a copedparapet, and over the right bay is a coped gable. In the right return are casement windows and a dormer.[21]
The shaft of a former sundial in the grounds of Wardley Hall is in stone. It consists of a bulbous baluster with a moulded head and base. On it is a table top, replacing the dial.[22]
Originally a house incorporating a stonemason's workshop, later extended into two houses, they are in stone with quoins and a slate roof. The houses have two storeys, 20th-century porches, casement windows in square-cut surrounds, and there is a blocked elliptical-arch opening in the right return.[23][24]
The bridge carries Worsley Road over branches of the Bridgewater Canal, and has since been rebuilt and enlarged. It is in stone and brick. From the east it has a semicircular brick arch, then a blind segmental arch, and two similar arches, one blind and one open. The parapet is either is stone or brick with round-topped stone coping or with iron railings.[23][25]
The sluice gate was designed by James Brindley, and is at the east entrance to the canal leading from the coal mines. It enabled boats to leave the canal by producing a surge of water. It is composed of timber and cast iron, and has been much altered. The sluice gate is also part of a Scheduled Monument.[26][27]
The sluice gate was designed by James Brindley, and is at the west entrance to the canal leading from the coal mines. It enabled boats to leave the canal by producing a surge of water. It is composed of timber and cast iron, and has been much altered. The sluice gate is also part of a Scheduled Monument.[26][28]
The eastern entrance to the canal, designed by James Brindley, is a segmental arch hewn out of rock with a brick lining. The tunnel entrance is also part of a Scheduled Monument.[23][26][29]
The western entrance to the canal, designed by James Brindley, is a segmental arch hewn out of rock with a brick lining. The tunnel entrance is also part of a Scheduled Monument.[23][26][30]
A terrace of five houses in rendered brick with a stone-slate roof. They have two storeys, two bays each, and additions at the rear. Each house has an off-centre door, some also have porches, and the windows are casements with segmental heads. The front gardens have stone walls with round-topped copings.[33][34]
A house in rendered brick with a slate roof, two storeys, two bays, and a small rear wing. The off-centre door has a gabledcanopy, and the windows are replacement casements. In front is a stone garden wall.[35]
A house in rendered brick with a slate roof, two storeys and two bays. The off-centre door has a gabledcanopy, and the windows are casements, one with a segmental head. In front is a stone garden wall.[36]
The tomb is in the churchyard of St Paul's Church. It is a chest tomb in stone and is decorated with Classical motifs. The inscription gives details of the members of the Hewitt family of Peel Hall buried in the grave.[37][38]
A brick house with a slate roof, a double-depth plan, two storeys and a symmetrical front of three bays. The central doorway is flanked by Tuscan columns, above the door is a decorative elliptical fanlight, and the windows are sashes.[41]
A row of four houses in rendered brick with a stone eavescornice and a slate roof. They have two storeys, and each house has two bays, a rear wing, a central doorway and two casement windows in each floor.[42][43]
The boat-house is a long narrow brick building with a slate roof, and at the canal end is an elliptical arch containing double timber gates. The arch has an embattledparapet and stepped sides. The boat-house was used to house the royal barge during Queen Victoria's visit in 1851.[42][44]
The cottage in the grounds of Worsley New Hall is in stone with quoins, a slate roof, and additions in brick, and is in Gothic style. It has an L-shaped plan, two storeys, three bays, and a three-storey octagonal tower with a conical swept roof at the external angle. The first bay has a copedgable with a finial. In the second bay is a gabled porch with its Tudor arched doorway converted into a window. The other windows are mullioned, many with hood moulds.[17][45]
Designed by Edward Blore, this was a boiler house and gardener's dormitory in the grounds of Worsley New Hall. It is in Hollingtonsandstone and red brick, and has a slate roof, a single storey, and a T-shaped plan. To the south is a square chimney.[17][46]
The ice house is in the grounds of the former Worsley New Hall, now demolished. It is in stone with a brick interior with a segmental vaulted structure.[47][48]
The north aisle was added in 1881–82, and the church was restored in 1904. It is in Gothic Revival style, built in stone, and it has a roof of slate and clay tile with copedgables and cross finials. The church consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel, and a southwest tower. The tower has three stages, a south door, angle buttresses, an octagonal stair turret, clock faces, a corbel table, a coped parapet, and a small pyramidal roof. The window on the sides of the aisles are lancets, and in the clerestory they are quatrefoils.[37][51]
Wings were added to the sides of the court house in 1896, and it has since been used for other functions. The building is timber framed on a projecting stone plinth, and has a single storey. In the centre is a large hall which is flanked by lower projecting side wings, all of which are gabled. Between the wings is a porch with a loggia and a balustrade, and the doorway has a Tudor arched head. The windows are mullioned, some also have transoms, and the gables have decorative bargeboards and finials. On both sides are oriel windows, and on the right side is a chimney topped by a tower-like feature and a pyramidal roof.[42][53]
The gates were designed by Edward Blore. They are in cast and wrought iron, and consist of double carriage gates flanked by pedestrian gates. They have elaborate scrollwork, and at the top is a Baroque-type head and the outline of a cartouche. The gates are flanked by ashlarpiers and pierced quadrant walls.[47][54]
The previous hall was rebuilt and converted into three houses. It is in brick with applied timber framing, and has a roof of slate and stone-slate. There are two storeys and a symmetrical front of six bays. The second and fifth bays project forward under gables and have two storeys; the other bays have one storey and an attic. The windows are casements, there are dormer windows and one later bow window. At the rear is a central gable and two gabled dormers.[7][55]
The ice house is in the grounds of the former Peel Hall, now demolished. It has a brick vaulted entrance leading to a domed chamber about 4 metres (13 ft) in diameter.[56][57]
A group of houses with an irregular plan, two, three and four storeys, and four bays. All the windows are mullioned. The first two bays are in brick with a slate roof, and the second bay has a copedgable. The other bays are timber framed with a stone-slate roof. The third bay has a doorway with a moulded surround, and a gabled dormer. The right bay is larger consisting of a projecting four-storey cross-wing. The upper floors and the gable are all jettied, and the gable has decorative bargeboards and a finial.[23][58]
Originally a police house, later a private house, it is timber framed with a stone-slate roof. It has a T-shaped plan, two storeys and three bays, the third bay a gabled cross-wing. On the front is a gabled porch with decorative bargeboards and a finial, and in the second bay is a gabled dormer. The windows are mullioned or mullioned and transomed. On the right return is a two-storey porch with a jettied upper floor on scroll brackets.[42][59]
The purpose of the building was to store oil and powder for use on the canal and mines. It was converted for residential use in 1986, when wings were added to the rear, and openings were created. The building is in brick with stone dressings, and has a slate roof with copedgables and finials. It has two storeys and seven bays, segmental openings in the ground floor and three-light windows above. In the right gable end is an oriel window and a datestone.[60]
A country house, later part of a school, it is timber framed with a roof of slate and stone-slate. There are two storeys, six bays, and rear wings. The front is asymmetrical, and its features include a two-storey porch, gables and gabled dormers. The windows are mullioned or mullioned and the porch gable has a decorative panel including a coat of arms.[17][61]
The memorial commemorates Harriet, the widow of Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere. It is in stone, and consists of a tabernacle with a tall, elaborately decorated pinnacle in Gothic style. There are four aches on a plinth, with crocketedgables and corner pinnacles, and within the arches is a short column. Above are niches containing statues of personifications of charities, and on the top are gablets on columns and a cross finial.[63][64]
The public house is on a corner site. It is in stone on a projecting plinth and has a slate roof, two storeys, and sides of three and four bays. The windows are mullioned with sashes, and in the upper floor they have round-arched heads, colonettes and hood moulds. The doorway has a fanlight and a gable, and above it is a coat of arms. The corner is canted and in the upper floor is a polygonal oriel window. On the side are two gabled dormer windows with finials.[65]
The church was designed by J. Medland and Henry Taylor in Gothic Revival style with Decorated features, and the spire was added in 1897. The church is in stone on a projecting plinth with a slate roof, and consists of a nave, north and south aisles under separate roofs, a north porch, a taller chancel, and a west steeple. The steeple has a four-stage tower with angled buttresses, a west door, a four-light west window, a parapet, and a broach spire with lucarnes set back behind it. There is a bellcote on the chancel roof, and inside the church is a hammerbeam roof.[37][66]
The church, designed by J. Medland and Henry Taylor in Gothic Revival style, is in stone with a slate roof. It consists of a nave, a porch and baptistry, a chancel with a polygonal apse, a north chapel, and a transeptalvestry and organ chamber, and a steeple at the crossing. The steeple consists of a square tower rising to octagonal by broaches, with a square stair turret, and a broach spire with lucarnes. The windows are lancets.[37][67]
The fountain on Worsley Green is a memorial to the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater and was erected by the 3rd Earl of Ellesmere, re-using some of the bricks from the Duke's factory formerly on the site. It contains a carved bowl on a scrolled pedestal on a platform of four steps. This is surrounded by a brick superstructure with an arched opening on each side and an entablature with a frieze, a cornice, and a pierced parapet. On one of the steps is an inscription.[33][68]
A row of six houses in brick with applied timber framing and a clay tile roof. They have two storeys and a symmetrical front of 13 bays. There are four gables with decorative bargeboards and finials, the outer bays projecting forward, and in the centre is a dormer window. The windows are mullioned and some also have transoms.[33][69]
a row of four rendered brick houses with clay roofs. They have two storeys with attics, and each has one gabledbay. In the ground floor of each house is a doorway, a buttress, and a square three-light bay window. The upper floor is jettied and each house contains a three-light mullioned and transomed window, and there is a small two-light window in the gable.[33][70]
A row of four stone houses with applied timber framing on the upper floor and stone-slate roofs. They have two storeys and one bay each. The outer bays project forward as gabled cross-wings, and both of the houses in the inner bays has a gabled oriel-dormer window. All the windows are mullioned. The upper parts of the gables are shingled and have decorative bargeboards and finials.[33][71]
The footbridge crosses the Bridgewater Canal linking Barton Road and The Green. It is in wrought iron with stone abutments, and consists of a single segmental arch. The bridge has a cobbled deck, and cast iron posts supporting the railings. The abutments have triangular passing places, and terminal piers and coping stones.[42][72]
The war memorial is in the churchyard of St Mark's Church. It is in Cornishgranite and consists of a cross fleury on a tapering octagonal shaft. This stands on an octagonal plinth on a base of three steps. The plinth has a moulded base and cap and carries an inscription and the names of those lost in the First World War.[73]
The centre was designed by Bradshaw Gass & Hope, and is in brick with ashlarcopings and a hipped tile roof. There are two storeys, and the front facing the road has seven bays, with the outer two bays on each side projecting forward and with a glazed canopy between them. The outer bays contain four-light transomed windows and have coped parapets with end finials. The central bays have garage doors, and dormers in the roof. Behind are a garage, training galleries and observation halls.[12][74]
A K6 type telephone kiosk, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. Constructed in cast iron with a square plan and a dome, it has three unperforated crowns in the top panels.[75]
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