From what I can gather it was orignally a house called 'Elmswood House', built between 1850 and 1890. As late as 1982 I can find a reference to the Salvation Army still calling it Elmswood House.
Pevesner (2006) describes it as: "Tudor Gothic in pale ashlar, with barge-boarded gables, oriel and a hugh square-headed, traceried stair window. This window apparently part of an extension, dated 1878 with the intials of Nicholas Duckworth (a cotton merchant) on the porch to the right. The first phase might be by Cornelius Sherlock. Further extensions and subdivisions for its present role."
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There is a fleeting reference to the fact that Julia Lennon (Johns mother) may have been there for some time before her death, when it was a nursing home.
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