Woodhead Hall
WOODHEAD HALL, CHERRY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253648
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Woodhead Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WOODHEAD HALL, CHERRY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253648
- Date first listed:
- 18-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Woodhead Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODHEAD HALL, CHERRY LANE
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:
- WOODHEAD HALL, CHERRY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cheadle
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 02484 44804
Details
SK 04 SW CHEADLE CHERRY LANE
1663-0/6/10001 Woodhead Hall
II
Country house; used as Government Communications Establishment, CSOS Cheadle. Dated 1873, by William Sugden of Leek and built for William Allen, a Manchester merchant; late C20 extensions. Flemish bond red brick with stone dressings. Slate hipped roof with lead roll hips and ridge and moulded stone modillion cornice. Brick axial stacks with stone strings and caps. PLAN: Large double-depth plan house with central stairhall. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar. Symmetrical 2:2:2 bay south front, the centre with pediment breaks forward; pediment contains oval plaque inscribed WSA:1873:EPA. Ground floor 2-light sashes in slightly advance pilastered bays with colonnettes, moulded extrados and balustrades above. Steps up to similarly decorated central doorway with side lights and columns and large shaped stone brackets supporting balustraded balcony. First floor sashes with moulded stone eared architraves with cills on small brackets. All sashes without glazing bars. Stone weathering to plinth and four stringcourses continuing around the house. Rear north has wide pedimented centre bay with 3-light bay on the ground floor, canted above and flanked by narrow 2-storey square bays. The west side has three canted 2-storey bays. The elaborate twisted cast-iron drainpipes are C20 facsimiles of the originals. West and north elevations have C20 single-storey extensions. INTERIOR is largely intact and is richly decorated. Entrance vestibule has Ionic arcaded screen to large rectangular central stairhall with fine timber staircase with moulded balusters and string, panelled soffit and newels with ball finials; the balustrade continues around the landing which has an arcade at the east end with Jacobean style columns; moulded cornice, panelled coving and large rectangular lantern. The principal rooms have moulded plaster ceilings and pilastered window architraves with shutters, but most of the chimneypieces have been removed. Back staircase in east side of house has moulded balusters. NOTE: The house is said to be on the site of a house built in 1720, the cellar of which survives below the existing house.
Listing NGR: SK0248444804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436898
- 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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