Horwich is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It contains 19 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".[1] The parish contains the town of Horwich and the surrounding countryside. It has an industrial heritage, including a bleach works and a locomotive factory. The listed buildings include buildings surviving from the bleach works, a war memorial associated with the locomotive factory, houses and farmhouses, churches, a public house, a parish hall, a school, and a set of stocks.
The public house was extended in the 19th century. It is in stone with quoins and a stone-slate roof. There are two storeys, five bays, and lean-to extensions at the rear. The left bay projects, it is taller, and is canted, and contains casement windows and a round-headed cellar entrance. The second and third bays contain mullioned windows and steps leading up to a central porch. The other two bays are recessed and lower, and contain a mullioned window and blocked windows.[2]
The former farmhouse is in stone with quoins and a slate roof. There are two storeys and four bays, the right bay being higher, and at the rear is an outshut. In the first three bays the windows in the ground floor are mullioned, and in the upper floor they are casements. The right bay has a casement window in the ground floor and a small-paned window above. Above the entrance is a lintel and a hood mould. In the right return are external steps leading to a doorway in the upper floor.[3]
The house was extended in 1746. It is in stone with quoins and a slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays, the third bay forms the extension and is canted forward. The windows vary; some are mullioned, some are casements, and some are small-paned. Above the entrance is an inscribed lintel.[4]
Two stone houses with quoins and a slate roof. There are two storeys and five bays. The windows in the upper floor are casements, and in the ground floor most are mullioned, with a casement window in the fifth bay. [5]
Two houses in stone with quoins and a slate roof. There are two storeys, two bays, and a projecting right wing. The windows in the first bay are 20th-century casements, and the others are mullioned. Above the entrance is a large lintel.[6]
A stone house with quoins and a slate roof. There are two storeys, four bays and an outshut at the rear. The windows are mullioned, there is a datestone above the entrance on the front, and a porch on the left return.[7]
The factory buildings at Wallsuches were constructed in phases up to the late 19th century, and have since been used for other purposes. They are in gritstone and brick, with quoins and roofs of stone and slate, and are of varying types and sizes.[a][8][9]
This originated as a factory building in a bleach works. It is in stone and brick with a top frieze and cornice, and has a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and five bays, the second and fourth bays projecting forward. The windows are sash windows, and one is blind. In the second and fourth bays are round-headed entrances with imposts and keystones, the left one blocked, and the right containing a door with a fanlight.[b][10]
This originated as a factory building in a bleach works, and is in stone with quoins and a slate roof. There are two storeys and seven bays, the right two bays projecting forward and gabled. The windows are casements, and there are round-headed arches containing doorways in the second bay and in the protruding bays. In the roof is a gabled dormer containing an octagonal clock face.[c][11]
This originated as a factory building in a bleach works, and is in stone with a hippedslate roof and two storeys. The west front has three bays, a sill band, and a rusticated ground floor. In the ground floor is a round-headed window with imposts and a keystone, and in the upper floor are two round-headed windows with keystones. The longer north and south fronts have irregular bays and small windows.[d][12]
A country house, later used as a Masonic hall, it is stuccoed with stone dressings, a sill band, a top cornice, and a stone-slate hipped roof. There are two storeys and eight bays, the middle three bays projecting under a pediment containing a round recess. On the front is a semicircular porch with two Doric columns and half-columns, and the windows are sashes. At the rear is a three-bay bow window.[8][15]
A terrace of nine stone houses with a slate roof, most with two storeys, some with basements, and a total of eleven bays. No. 54 has three storeys and three bays. In the ground floor are bow windows with small-paned glazing and entablatures, and in the upper floor most of the windows are casements. The doorways are approached by steps, and have flat pilasters and entablatures.[16]
A stone house with bands, a top cornice, a blocking course, and a slate roof. There are two storeys, five bays, and a rear extension. The central bay projects forward, it is bowed, and has a top cornice on consoles. The bay contains a bowed tetrastyleDoric porch and a doorway with a fanlight. Most of the windows are sashes; some have been converted into casements.[8][17]
The school is in stone with a band, and a slate roof with copedgables. There are two storeys and seven bays. The windows have two segmental-headed lights and hood moulds, and above the two doorways are similar fanlights.[13][20]
The war memorial is at the entrance to the former Horwich Locomotive Works. It consists of a marble statue of a soldier with a rifle standing on a granitepedestal. This is on a granite plinth on a chamfered concrete base. On the pedestal are inscriptions, including the names of those lost in the two world wars. The memorial is enclosed by iron railings.[22]
The stocks are outside the vicarage, and consist of two stone posts with vertical grooves on the inner faces. The stocks have been converted into an ornamental bench.[23]
