Ramsbottom is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England, and includes the villages of Holcombe and Summerseat and the surrounding countryside. The area is unparished, and it contains 52 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The area is partly agricultural, partly industrial, and partly residential. The listed buildings include farmhouses and farm buildings, private houses and associated structures, churches and items in churchyards, a hotel, public houses, a hall, an engineering works and a mill, a former railway goods shed, a monument, and a telephone kiosk.
The barn is in stone with quoins, and contains three cruck trusses. It has an aisle extending partly down the west side. The openings include two cart entrances, doorways and windows.[2]
A pair of stone houses with a stone slab roof. There are two storeys at the front and one at front facing the road, with extensions of one and two storeys. Some windows are mullioned, and others are casements.[4]
A stone house with two storeys and two bays. The windows were originally mullioned, but in the front the mullions have been removed. In the left gable end is a doorway, a mullioned window, and a horizontally-sliding sash window.[5]
Originally a hunting lodge, with wings added in the 17th century, it has since been divided into two dwellings. The house is in stone, and consists of an H-house with an extension at each end, and has two storeys. The ground floor windows are mullioned and transomed, in the upper floor they are mullioned, and all have hood moulds. At the top of the house are ball and obeliskfinials and an embattledparapet. Much of the furniture and internal fittings came from Whalley Abbey.[6][7]
Originally a farmhouse containing some earlier material, it was altered in the 18th and the late 19th centuries, and has been divided into two dwellings. Basically cruck-framed, the building is in sandstone and has a roof mainly of Welsh slate. There are two storeys, four bays, a single-storey extension, and a small rear outshut. On the front are a lean-to porch and a gabled porch. Most of the windows are mullioned, some with hood moulds, and there are some casement windows.[8]
The cottage is in stone with a concrete tile roof. There are two storeys, two bays, a rear outshut, and a barn added to the left gable end. The doorway in the right gable end has a monolithlintel. The windows are mullionedcasements, and between the upper floor windows are the remains of a sundial. In the barn is a cart entrance.[10]
A wing was added at right angles to the original range in 1759. The house is in stone and has a roof with copedgables, and two storeys. Above the doorway in the older part is a dated and initialled panel over a shaped lintel. The windows in both parts are mullioned, and some have hood moulds.[11][12]
A stone house with some brick and a slate roof. There are two storeys, two bays, and a rear wing. Some of the windows are mullioned, some are round-headed, and some have hood moulds.[13]
Originally a public house, later a private house, it is in stone with quoins, 2+1⁄2 storeys, and the main part has a symmetrical front. In the centre is an embattled porch, and the doorway has a mouldedarchitrave and a pulvinated frieze. The windows are mullioned and transomed with hood moulds, and the window above the porch has a round head with a keystone and impost mouldings. In the roof are five dormers with hipped roofs and casement windows. To the right is a slightly lower two-storey extension, and to the right of that another lower extension.[14]
A pair of stone houses with quoins and a slate roof. There are three storeys and basements, and each house has two bays. The windows in the basement are mullioned, and above they have been replaced with casement windows. The doorways have stone surrounds and mouldedcornices, and above the doorway of the right house is a fanlight.[15]
A stone house with a stone slab roof and two storeys. It has three bays, the right bay projecting forward under a gable, forming a cross-wing, with flush quoins. On the front is a gabled porch with a Tudor arched entrance, above the porch is a decorated, initialled and dated panel, and the windows are mullioned, some with hood moulds.[16][17]
The farmhouse was extended to the left in 1793. Both parts are in stone with quoins, a stone slab roof, and two storeys, and each part has two bays. The windows are mullioned, some with hood moulds, and at the rear is a transomed stair window. The doorway in the original part has a large inscribed lintel, and the later part has a datestone.[18]
A pair of house at the end of a terrace, they are in stone and have three storeys. The windows are mullioned, and the doorways have flush surrounds.[19]
A stone cottage with quoins and a wooden gutter on corbels. There are two storeys and two bays. The windows are mullioned with hood moulds on the ground floor, and the doorway has a flush surround.[20]
The barns are in stone and are in two sections. In the left part is a segmental-headed cart entrance, and the right part has a gable facing the road.[a][22]
The sundial is in the churchyard of Emmanuel Church. It is in stone, and consists of an octagonal pier on a large plinth with three steps on one side. It has a square top inscribed with the date and initials, and a metal dial.[23]
The house incorporates material from a 17th-century house. It is in stone with mouldedeaves, a gutter cornice, a pulvinated frieze, and two storeys. There is a 19th-century bay window in the right bay, and the other windows are mullioned. In the centre is a doorway with a moulded surround and a cornice.[24]
The public house is in ashlar stone with quoins, a slate roof, three storeys, and a symmetrical front of three bays. The central doorway has pilasters, a fanlight, and an open pediment. In the lower two floors are sash windows, and in the top floor the windows are casements. The roof has two spans, with a parapet between the gables.[25]
A house, later divided into three dwellings, it is in sandstone with a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys, a symmetrical front of five bays, and a right return also of five bays. In the centre is a porch with two columns and a doorway with a segmental head, and above are sash windows.[26][27]
The hotel is in stone with a slate roof. The front is symmetrical with three storeys, five bays, sill bands, and quoins. In the centre is a doorway with Tuscan half-columns, the windows are sashes, and there is a clock in the centre of the top floor. At the rear is an older wing that has an arched doorway with imposts.[28][29]
Originally the coach house and stables of Nuttall Hall, now demolished, the building is in stone with a sill band, and an eavescornice. There are two storeys and six bays, the outer bays recessed. The central two bays project slightly further, and contain a rectangular bay window in the ground floor, a roundel in the upper floor, and at the top is a pediment containing a carved cartouche. In the second and fifth bays are arched doorways with quoined surrounds, and the doorway in the sixth bay has a pediment. The windows are sashes.[16][30]
A pair of stone cottages with two storeys and cellars. Each cottage has one bay. In the cellars are mullioned windows, and the windows above have been replaced.[33]
A row of 16 stone cottages with two storeys and one bay. The windows have stone sills, and the doorways have architraves. Two of the cottages have inserted bow windows. In front of the cottages is stone paving and stone setts.[34]
A terrace of four stone shops with a gutter cornice and two storeys. The windows in the upper floor vary; some are sashes, and some have been replaced. In the ground floor are differing shop fronts. Nos. 10 and 12 have pilasters and dentilled cornices, No. 14 has fluted3⁄4Doric columns, a cornice, and a shop window with arched lights, and No. 16 has a bow window.[36]
A stone house with quoins, a gutter cornice, and a slate roof. There are three storeys and a basement, and a symmetrical front of three bays. The central doorway has impost blocks, a keystone, a moulded arch and a fanlight. There are stone steps leading up to each side of the door, with iron railings. To the left is an outbuilding, setback and with a large circular opening.[37]
A stone barn with a stone flagged roof, it has symmetrical fronts. In both fronts are central cart entrances with segmental heads, and on the front facing the road are two circular pitching holes.[38]
Originally a Presbyterian church, later Anglican, it is in gritstone with a Welsh slate roof. The church consists of a nave, a polygonal apse, and a west tower flanked by lean-to porches containing entrances to the gallery. The tower has two stages, octagonal buttresses, clock faces, and corbelled-out corner pinnacles with stepped pyramidal caps, and with an embattledparapet between them. The bays of the nave are divided by buttresses, and contain lancet windows, and at the corners of the nave are octagonal buttresses rising to pinnacles with foliage capitals. Inside the church is a west gallery.[39][40]
A row of stone shops with quoins, an eavescornice and a blocking course. There are three storeys and twelve bays. In the ground floor are shop fronts, and above are sash windows in architraves, those in the middle floor having cornice hoods.[28][42]
A terrace of shops on a corner site, in ashlar stone, with three storeys. There are three bays on Market Place, one on Bridge Street, and a curved bay on the corner. In the ground floor are shop fronts, and in the upper floors are sash windows. Framing the shop windows and doors are cornices and pilasters.[43]
A pair of stone shops with sill bands, an eavescornice, and corner pilasters. There are three storeys, and each shop has two bays. In the ground floor are 20th-century shop fronts, and above are sash windows.[44]
This was built to accommodate hand-loom weavers under one roof. It is in stone with three storeys, and in the top floor is a continuous band of 23 weavers' windows that are mullioned and transomed. In the middle floor are similar windows, not in a band, and sash windows. In the ground floor, from the left, are a doorway, two mullioned windows, an archway with a segmental head and a keystone, and two sash windows flanking a doorway. In the right bays are two doorways with cantedbay windows to the right.[16][45]
The goods shed was built by the East Lancashire Railway Company. It is in sandstone with a grey slate roof, and has a rectangular plan, a single storey, and four bays. The east side is built into an embankment. There are entrances in the north and south gable ends, and along the west side are four windows; all the windows have semicircular heads formed from voussoirs. The doorway at the south end has rusticatedquoins.[46]
A stone building on a corner site with sill bands, quoins, an eavescornice, and a blocking course. There are three storeys, six bays on the front, four bays on Market Street, and a curved bay on the corner. The windows are sashes. In the corner bay, the ground floor window has a bracketed cornice, the window in the middle floor has a bracketed pediment, and the ground floor windows adjacent to the corner also have bracketed pediments. On the front is a carriage entry with a depressed arch.[49]
The monument commemorating Sir Robert Peel stands near the top of Holcombe Hill. It is in stone with a square plan, and is 120 feet (37 m) high. It consists of a slightly tapering chimney-like tower, with a corbelled and embattledparapet. The tower stands on a single-storey base, also with an embattled parapet. There are small mullioned windows in the base and the tower.[6][50]
The house is in stone and has corbels under the eaves, two storeys and two bays. Much of the material used in its construction came from two other buildings, Manchester Parish Church, which was being restored, and Holcombe courthouse, which was being demolished. Features include the main doorway with its gable hood and lintel dated 1664, mullioned windows with hood moulds, carved cross-keys and a datestone dated 1414, and a gargoyle at the apex of the gable. On the right side is a central plain porch and a mullioned window.[16][53]
A former Methodist chapel in Italianate style, built in ashlar stone with sill bands, an eavescornice, and two storeys. There are four bays, the outer bays projecting forward and pedimented. In the central bays, steps lead up to two round-headed doorways with rusticatedpilasters and an entablature with keystones. In the upper floor are round-headed windows, and at the top is an upstand. The outer bays have corner pilasters, a round-headed window in each floor, and a frieze of panels between them.[28][54]
A cotton spinning mill on a site first developed by Robert Peel in 1773. It is in stone with a hippedslate roof, and is in Italianate style. The mill has an L-shaped plan, with four storeys, and a two-storey extension added in 1890. The windows in the upper two storeys have round heads and impost bands, and there is a large arched window with pilasters facing the river.[55][56]
The building, containing an entertainment hall, offices and shops, is in sandstone with a slate roof. It is on a sloping site, and has three storeys at the front, at the rear are five storeys, a basement and a lower basement, and the front has five bays. In the ground floor are two modern shop fronts, and on the left is a round-headed doorway with a moulded surround, a fanlight, and a triangular pediment with a moulded console on the left. The middle floor contains rectangular windows with pedimented lintels, in the top floor the windows are round headed with moulded surrounds, and above each window is a moulded band and a roundel. Inside the top floor is a hall with galleries on three sides.[57]
The public house is in stone with a mouldedcornice. There are two storeys and four bays. On the front is a square porch, and the windows have been replaced.[60]
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.[61]
The war memorial stands in the churchyard of St Paul's Church. It is in Portland stone on a podium of Yorkshire stone. The memorial consists of a Latin cross on a square pedestal and plinth on a circular podium. On the front of the cross is a metal sword in its scabbard, painted black. On the front of the memorial is an inscription relating to both World Wars.[62]
