Character and Appearance
The character and appearance of the St George's Conservation Area arises principally from two periods of development. The early nineteenth century saw the establishment of the grid pattern of residential streets and terraces in particular around the former core of Little Bolton. The later nineteenth century and early twentieth century saw the development of many of the prestigious buildings and later terraces. By this stage the area was fully developed in to a Victorian residential suburb.
St George's has a compact linear emphasis, with a consistent building enclosure along St George's Road in the western section of the Conservation Area. Open spaces and landscape are limited to front or side areas. Beyond the junction with Knowsley Street there are varying degrees of enclosure and set back and the street has a more open aspect. By contrast the tight grid network of Bark Street, and All Saints Street have terraced buildings right up against the footpath which give a distinctive visual enclosure and frames the view to All Saints Church. St George's Church is an important local landmark building whose tower dominates views into and out of the Conservation Area.
The buildings in the Conservation Area are characterised by domestic Georgian and Victorian red brick terraces of two or three storey with slate pitched roofs. Window and door openings maintain a domestic scale and simplicity, and have vertical proportions. Windows would have traditionally been multipaned timber sliding sashes but only a few still however are still surviving. The terraces are punctuated in the street scene by small public and religious buildings of different architectural styles and materials which form landmarks or break up the continuity of the terraces. Building styles vary from simple Georgian to Classical and Baroque.
The overriding significance of the St George's Conservation Area is associated with townscape and group value of surviving historic buildings.
