Building Name
Woodside, Chorley New Road Heaton Bolton
Date
1877
Street
Chorley New Road
District/Town
Heaton, Bolton
County/Country
GMCA, England
Architect
Client
J Mellor
Work
New Build
Listed
Grade II
A number of Bolton's leading industrialists built a series of fine houses on wooded ground sloping down from Chorley New Road to Middle Brook, Woodside was built for J. Mellor about 1865 and sold in 1879 to his cousin, J.P. Thomasson, a wealthy cotton spinner and local benefactor. High Victorian gothic with many towers and gables, decorative ironwork to the roof and an impressive entrance porch.
Date of construction given variously as about 1865 or 1877.