STABLE BLOCK TO THE NORTH WEST OF BIRTLES HALL

STABLE BLOCK TO THE NORTH WEST OF BIRTLES HALL, BIRTLES LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274944
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1992
List Entry Name:: STABLE BLOCK TO THE NORTH WEST OF BIRTLES HALL
Statutory Address:: STABLE BLOCK TO THE NORTH WEST OF BIRTLES HALL, BIRTLES LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1274944
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1992
List Entry Name:: STABLE BLOCK TO THE NORTH WEST OF BIRTLES HALL
Statutory Address 1:: STABLE BLOCK TO THE NORTH WEST OF BIRTLES HALL, BIRTLES LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: STABLE BLOCK TO THE NORTH WEST OF BIRTLES HALL, BIRTLES LANE

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

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Over Alderley
National Grid Reference:: SJ 85826 74648

Details

SJ 87 SE OVER ALDERLEY BIRTLES LANE (off)

203-/8/10000 Stableblock to the North-west of Birtles Hall

GV II

Stableblock, now houses, garages and stables. Early C19 for the Hibbert family, with C20 alterations and additions. Red brick, rising from an ashlar gritstone plinth, with hipped roofs, and Welsh slate coverings. 'U' shaped plan, with advanced wings, and with lower contemporary wing attached to west wing, all enclosing a paved yard. Added double pitched canopy supported on steel joist and central column links inner parts of advanced wings. South elevation. Two storeys, five bays, the three centre bays set back behind single bay outer wings which project southwards. Centre three bays with shallow pediment, and circular clock face within gable apex. Octagonal louvred cupola with shallow sheet metal covered ogee roof and above, decorative finial and weathervane. Stone copings to gable, and shallow parapet above ashlar storey band.Ground floor carriage sheds below segmental arch heads, one each side of a central single doorway, with six panel door, below a segmental arch head. Vertically-boarded double doorcase hung from pins in ashlar wall bands at head, mid door and plinth levels. First floor window openings below segmental arch heads, the centre opening blocked, the outer openings with glazing bar sashes, 6 over 6 panes. Gables to outer bays with plain hips and pitching eye to east wing, within ashlar surround. West side wall of east wing, formerly with two stable doors and flanking tall windows, one of which has been altered to form third doorway. Two overloft doors, one now altered to form a window. East side wall of west wing with stable doorways now blocked, and with 4 C20 inserted windows. Lower two-storey range attached to west wing with three segmental arch headed carriage doorways, all with vertically- boarded doors. South end with a C20 inserted glazing bar sash frame, 3 over 6 panes, to the north, an inserted door. two overloft pitching eyes, and between, a 12 pane window. North and west elevations to main ranges altered to form late C19 and C20 dwellings, those to the west with elevated and recessed doorways enclosed within semi- circular arched openings, C20 glazing bar sashes and casements. North elevation with C19 and C20 glazing bar sashes, all beneath segmental arch heads. Three doorways, the two outer doors boarded, the central door with 9 pane light to upper part. Stable fittings, including ramped stall divider survives in only part of east range.

Listing NGR: SJ8582674648

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Legacy System number:: 351249
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.