Lowerhouse Farmhouse
LOWERHOUSE FARMHOUSE, ALDERLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1138875
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Lowerhouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWERHOUSE FARMHOUSE, ALDERLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1138875
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lowerhouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWERHOUSE FARMHOUSE, ALDERLEY 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:
- LOWERHOUSE FARMHOUSE, ALDERLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mottram St. Andrew
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 86697 78602
Details
SJ 87 NE MOTTRAM ST.ANDREW C.P. ALDERLEY ROAD (North Side)
5/76 Lowerhouse Farmhouse (formerly listed as Lower House)
14/4/1967 II*
Farmhouse: mid C16 with early C17 facade and late C17 and C18 brick repairs. Some timber framing, the larger part in English garden wall bond red brick with buff sandstone dressings. Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge, 2 gable brick chimneys and a massive stone lateral chimney with 2 diamond brick stacks. H-plan house. 2-storey, 3-bay front. End bays project forward slightly under gables. Chamfered stone plinth, moulded bands at 1st and 2nd floor, and stone quoins. Left end bay has a tall rebated 5-light chamfered stone mullioned window, the band rising to form a hood mould. Just to right is a 4-centred arched doorcase with a cyma-moulding containing a C20 studded door. Above is a similar 3-light window and a 2-light in gable having a flat hood. Right end bay has no bands or quoins and very irregular brickwork and has 3-light wooden casements under cambered brick heads. Central bay has 2 5-light rebated chamfered stone mullions divided by a stone pier on both floors with moulding continuous above them both. Mixture of original and applied lattice lead glazing. Right end is mainly timber framed with close studding with middle rail below and chevroning above and a blocked 6-light wooden diamond mullioned window. Simpler timber framing to the rear and some brick repairs and the massive stone stack.
Interior: Door opens into what is almost a screens passage. The hall to the right has a massive stone inglenook fireplace with a cambered chamfered firebeam. There are 3 niches for candles in the inglenook. Weakly ovolo-moulded ceiling beams. Room behind has an altered corner fireplace and a simply chamfered beam. Parlour to left of passage has firebeam of a cluster of bead moulds on a similarly moulded post. Deeply chamfered ceiling beam. Timber framed partition walls throughout and trusses of tiebeam and 2 diagonal struts.
Listing NGR: SJ8669778602
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58242
- 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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