The Penn
THE PENN, MACCLESFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138870
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Penn
- Statutory Address:
- THE PENN, MACCLESFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138870
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Penn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PENN, MACCLESFIELD ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE PENN, MACCLESFIELD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alderley Edge
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 85340 78008
Details
SJ 87 NE ALDERLEY EDGE C.P. MACCLESFIELD ROAD (North Side)
5/61 The Penn.
II
House: dated 1912 by Percy Worthington for Walter Milne of Kendal Milne stores. Roughcast brick with hipped Cotswold slate bell-cast roofs and 3 brick chimneys. Neo-Georgian style. L-shaped in plan. 2-storey symmetrical 7-bay west front of west range. Flush 12-pane sashes in simple moulded architraves. Central semi-circular headed doorcase with fanlight with radial glazing bars and swags above a half glazed door flanked by half pillars. Plaster plaque with date and patron's initials above. 3 hipped gabled dormers. In front is flagged terrace with stone terrace walls and central flight of steps. West end of north range has projecting weatherboarded summerhouse on a stone plinth. South gable has 2, 2-storey bowed bay windows. East front has 9-pane windows and a pair of doors in an eared architrave under a flat hood on carved wooden brackets. South front of north range has a pair of semi-circular headed arches on a stone Tuscan pillar. Interior: Hall is open to 2 storeys with simple oak balustrade along the upstairs landing. Grey sandstone fireplace to the side with an acanthus border and a C18 cast-iron grate. 3 openings off hall into long garden room which can be partitioned into living and dining rooms by sliding oak screens to leave a central passage. One end of room has oak panelled alcoves with fitted furniture flanking a good cast-iron grate with an oak overmantel. Modillion cornice to ceilings. Oak well staircase with carved brackets on open string. 3-panelled oak doors throughout. A good example of its period, with faint Scottish flavour under Arts and Crafts influence.
Listing NGR: SJ8534078008
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58227
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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