1 & 3 Richmond Green
Location/Address
1 & 3 Richmond Green, Bowdon WA14 3NW
Type
Description
he building appears on an historic OS map of the 1870’s as a pair of semi-detached houses with inter-locking ground floor plan with various attached and detached outbuildings to the rear and set within substantial grounds. This remained the case into the 1930’s. By the 1960’s the two houses appear to have been joined to form one property named ‘Ingledene’, annotated “Children’s Home”, but with various of the detached outbuildings having been demolished. It would seem that the children’s home use has ceased at some point since the 1960’s and the building is once again a pair of semi-detached houses but not with the original line of internal sub-division. The building is now in less extensive grounds with the erection of four detached houses on rear land and reached by the modern-day Richmond Green private access road. No.1 is the northerly of the pair and closest to the Richmond Green access route; No.3 is the southerly of the pair.
Both properties have a bay window to their side elevations (i.e. the north and south elevations of the building). The ground floor of the bay window to No.3 appears altered and it seems that the ground level in this location may have been lowered to facilitate an externally full height basement elevation. While not wholly unsympathetic this altered feature needs to be better understood but, on balance, could be seen as not in itself preventing local listing.
No.1 has a single storey pitched roofed extension which appears to be in the location of – and may incorporate at least elements of – the historic outbuildings. The rear elevation of No.3 now has none of the original or historic attached outbuildings.
The original/historic setting has been considerably disrupted by the loss of outbuildings and the laying out of the current-day Richmond Green access route. No.3 continues to be accessed by a separate curving driveway which serves a modern detached garage Despite the contraction of the curtilage and other changes, some sense of the original pair of houses within a garden setting with forecourts to the side has been retained.
Th boundary wall to Richmond Road is of interest as it appears as original stone slabs on-end acting as a retaining wall. This, however, has been visually compromised by the erection of a high fence with posts and lower infill panels in concrete with the upper infills in timber. It is noted that this unsympathetic boundary treatment could be appropriately reversed in the future without harm to the remaining heritage significance of the property.
Statement of Significance
None recorded
Date Listed
24 Jul 2023
Last Updated
19 Jun 2023
Find Out More
Find out more about this Asset in Greater Manchester Local Heritage List:
https://local-heritage-list.org.uk/greater-manchester/asset/14324
https://local-heritage-list.org.uk/greater-manchester/asset/14324