Redclyffe Grange, Archway and Attached Walls to North East Corner
REDCLYFFE GRANGE, ARCHWAY AND ATTACHED WALLS TO NORTH EAST CORNER, WOODBROOK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234591
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Redclyffe Grange, Archway and Attached Walls to North East Corner
- Statutory Address:
- REDCLYFFE GRANGE, ARCHWAY AND ATTACHED WALLS TO NORTH EAST CORNER, WOODBROOK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234591
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Redclyffe Grange, Archway and Attached Walls to North East Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- REDCLYFFE GRANGE, ARCHWAY AND ATTACHED WALLS TO NORTH EAST CORNER, WOODBROOK ROAD
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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:
- REDCLYFFE GRANGE, ARCHWAY AND ATTACHED WALLS TO NORTH EAST CORNER, WOODBROOK 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 84850 78226
Details
SJ 87 NW
4/73
ALDERLEY EDGE C.P.
WOODBROOK ROAD
(North Side)Redclyffe Grange,archway and attached walls to north-east corner.
GII
Gothick House:1853 by and for J S Crowther with early C20 additions.Header board purple-red brick with buff sandstone dressings.Partly stone-slate, partly tiled roof. One brick and one octagonal stone chimney.Two-storey,Four-bay front.Right end bay has a five-light window with trefoil-headed lights below and a two-light mullioned and transomed window with a quatrefoil in the apex.Delicate beading along the gable edge and a gargoyle spout.To left is a low three-stage tower with trefoil headed single lights and a tall pitched roof with a delicate ironwork top.Other two bays are additions but central one contains the original doorcase in a lancet surround with a carved quatrefoil above a flat rebated head.Pair of oak doors have ornate iron hinges.Garden front is a long range with five gabled half dormers and uses Gothick motifs.Interior:Hall has a Gothick arcade and enclosed dogleg stone staircase with trefoil headed openings. Dining and living rooms have panelled ceilings.The main beams on stone corbels.Grey sandstone Gothick fireplaces and arched sandstone window openings have crocketting.At the north-east corner of the house is a hammer-dressed pink sandstone gateway with a pointed arch,with lower walls to either side.Standing on the walls and resting on the arch are two carved griffons, and a monster squats on the keystone.It is interesting to compare Crowther's medieval-style manor house,with that of his pupil Thomas Worthington's,Broomfield,Macclesfield Road,Alderley Edge(q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8485078226
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58239
- 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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