NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL

NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, 2, BROCKLEHURST AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280026
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, 2, BROCKLEHURST AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280026
Date first listed:: 17-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, 2, BROCKLEHURST AVENUE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, 2, BROCKLEHURST AVENUE

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

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Macclesfield
National Grid Reference:: SJ 92228 74122

Details

MACCLESFIELD

SJ97SW BROCKLEHURST AVENUE 886-1/4/220 (East side) 17/06/94 No.2 and attached boundary wall

II

Lodge and attached boundary wall. Mid C19. Of narrow, snecked sandstone with chamfered quoins and ashlar dressings, wide copings to gables and a single ridge stack, with decorative corbelled capping. Welsh slated roof. L-plan house, with a deep, open-bed pediment to each gable. Front elevation (W); 2 storeys with advanced pedimented gable to left. To the right, an open integral porch with a semicircular-arched opening with moulded arched head. Set-back doorway with semicircular fanlight and 4-panel door. Ashlar storey band above, with blind plaque within moulded surround. Gable to left with ground-floor canted bay window, and central first-floor single-light window with semicircular head, and band which links with pediment base. Projecting sill with cast-iron window box holder. Sash windows without glazing bars except for main window to bay, which is a 2 over 2 pane sash. Gable to S elevation similarly detailed, but with flat-headed opening to ground floor. Rear elevation with door and window opening to ground floor, and shallow lean-to within SE angle. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: contemporary stone wall with moulded ashlar coping attached via C20 replacement gates to S of entrance. The wall is stepped to accommodate changes in ground level, and helps to enclose the garden. INTERIOR not inspected. The building is believed to have been built as a replacement for an earlier lodge to Hurdsfield House (qv) built by the Brocklehurst family, silk manufacturers and notable Macclesfield benefactors in the mid C19.

Listing NGR: SJ9222874122

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Legacy System number:: 390907
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.