Deansgate Conservation Area - Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council

Fig.17: Burtons on Market Street
4.8 Building materials and features
Buildings in the conservation area are built of a wide range of materials, with buffcoloured
sandstone being used for the higher status buildings such as the Church, and
for details, while white Portland stone was used for the facings of several inter-war
commercial properties. Red brick was used for many 19 th century buildings, while other
fired clay materials like terracotta and faience in a variety of colours became popular
around 1900. Pitched roofs are mostly covered in Welsh slate. A number of brick-built
properties have been rendered and painted white, and there are also examples of mock
timber-framing, applied to brick or timber-framed structures.
There are high stone retaining walls topped by traditional cast iron railings down the
west side of Bank Street and adjacent to the Market Hall on Bridge Street where there is
an abrupt change of ground level.
Fig.18: Contrasting materials: red
sandstone and black and white halftimbering
on adjacent buildings on the
south side of Deansgate.
Some cast-iron street signs, probably dating from the late 19 th century have survived on
some buildings, for example on the south section of Market Street.
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