Croston Cottage
CROSTON COTTAGE, MACCLESFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234402
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Croston Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CROSTON COTTAGE, MACCLESFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234402
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Croston Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROSTON COTTAGE, 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:
- CROSTON COTTAGE, 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:
- SJ8510578011
Details
SJ 87 NE ALDERLEY EDGE C.P MACCLESFIELD ROAD (North Side)
5/60 Croston Cottage.
II
House: 1847 with early C20 additions. Rendered brick on plinth with Welsh slate roof and 4 plastered chimneys. Tudor Gothick style. Originally L-shaped now square. 2-storey, 3-bay west front. Left end bay has recessed 2-light windows with glazing bars and intersecting tracery in the heads, the one above under a hood mould in a barge boarded gable. Similar windows in right end bay which steps forward. Central chamfered doorcase has 4-centred arched head above half-glazed door. Above is 2-light window opening onto balcony above door, with plain parapet. Tracery in windows on the sides. Interior: Staircase has square balusters, mahogany handrail and shaped open string. 2 original fireplaces with cast-iron grates, one with engaged columns 4-panelled doors.
The best preserved of the early speculator's houses on the Edge.
Listing NGR: SJ8527777998
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58226
- 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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