HEARSE HOUSE IN ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD

HEARSE HOUSE IN ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD, THE VILLAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1221897
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: HEARSE HOUSE IN ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address:: HEARSE HOUSE IN ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD, THE VILLAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1221897
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: HEARSE HOUSE IN ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD
Statutory Address 1:: HEARSE HOUSE IN ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD, THE VILLAGE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HEARSE HOUSE IN ST PETER'S CHURCHYARD, THE VILLAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Prestbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ9003976897

Details

SJ 97 NW PRESTBURY C.P. THE VILLAGE (East Side)

6/220 Hearse House in St. Peter's Churchyard

GV II

Hearse House: dated 1852. English garden wall bond orange brick. Kerridge stone-slate roof and stone ridge. Rectangular plan. 1-storey, 2-bay east front. Left end bay has a stone plaque reading "THE GROUND WITHIN THIS WALL WAS ADDED TO THE CHURCHYARD AND CONSECRATED A.D. MDCCCLVI. REV.H.PEARSON LLB VICAR" and with the names of the churchwardens and committee. The right bay has a 2-centred brick arch containing a heavy door divided into vertical panels. Right end has a further plaque reading "Robert Wright, William Bullock, William Barker, George Godwin. Church Wardens 1852". This must have replaced the building mentioned in the lychgate inscription. = = Listed for group value only.

Listing NGR: SJ9003976897

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Legacy System number:: 413840
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.