Denzell House

Denzell House was built in 1874 for Robert Scott, a businessman associated with the textile firm Tootal Broadhurst Lee. Scott purchased 10 acres of land from the seventh Earl of Stamford for £7,075 and commissioned Manchester architects Clegg & Knowles to design the property. The house cost approximately £18,000 to build, with a further £12,000 for fittings. It was intended for Scott's son, Henry, who died before occupying it. Over the years, Denzell House served a variety of roles. In 1938 it was used as a Whitsuntide weekend school, providing educational and recreational activities during the holiday period. In the post-war years, Denzell House continued to be used by the health authority…

Denzell House incorporates elements of Jacobean, Gothic, and Italianate styles. The architectural critic Pevsner described it as "luscious" but "really very bad". Features include a stone plinth, ashlar quoins, first-floor and eaves bands, multiple gables, Tudor-style chimneys, and steeply pitched roofs with crested ridge tiles. The entrance façade is characterised by an asymmetrical porte-cochère with semi-circular arches, quatrefoil tracery, modillion eaves, and a parapet with cartouches and finials. Above it are a mullioned and transomed window, a dated cartouche (1874), and an ornate gable flanked by chimneys. The south-west garden elevation has five bays with shaped gables to bays 1…