Abney Hall
Abney Hall, Machester Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1241730
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Abney Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Abney Hall, Machester Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1241730
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Abney Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Abney Hall, Machester 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:
- Abney Hall, Machester Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockport (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 85953 89237
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 July 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SJ 88 NE
5/36
CHEADLE
MANCHESTER ROAD (north-east side)
Abney Hall
30.6.75
GV
II*
Large house now school of languages. North-west corner 1847 for A. Orrell, neo-Norman; south and south-east 1849 probably by Travis and Mangnall for James Watt, Tudor-Gothic; south-east corner 1894 by G. F. Armitage of Altrincham. Flemish bond brick with sandstone dressings and slate roof. Large irregular house with two storeys plus attics. Heavily enriched neo-Norman entrance portal with elaborate cusped arcade at first floor, neo-Norman niche and coped gable. Wings project slightly on either side and have large mullion and transom windows with arched (left) and cusped (right) lights, enriched band, continuous hoodmoulds, statue niches and pinnacled coped gables.
The garden elevation (south), apart from a series of seven irregular gables has square, triangular and polygonal bay windows, a two-storey bow window, gargoyles, weather-vanes, numerous elaborate chimney shafts and a five-bay single-storey addition of 1894 in ashlar with five stepped gables, mullion and transom windows and a large central niche.
Interior: even more sumptuous, the work carried out by J. G. Crace between 1852 and 1857, much of it to designs by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Heavily carved open-well staircase with arched braces carrying a panelled ceiling. Landing lantern on ribs and tierceron ribs on the Ely octagon pattern. Drawing room with Puginesque richness, panelled pendant ceiling, papier-maché doorcases, white marble chimney piece and chandelier by Hardman. Music room with huge inglenook fireplace and heraldic stained glass of 1894. Generally a Puginian Gothic interior of extaordinary quality executed by Crace who may have been the greatest interior decorator of his day.
Listing NGR: SJ8595389237
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440930
- 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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