Carterbench House
CARTERBENCH HOUSE, CLARENCE BROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329966
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Carterbench House
- Statutory Address:
- CARTERBENCH HOUSE, CLARENCE BROW
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329966
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Carterbench House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARTERBENCH HOUSE, CLARENCE BROW
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:
- CARTERBENCH HOUSE, CLARENCE BROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bollington
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 93475 78082
Details
SJ 97 NW BOLLINGTON CLARENCE BROW (East Side)
2/17 Carterbench House.
II
Formerly Rock Bank House, later hospital, now offices: c1840 for Martin Swindells. Ashlar buff sandstone, Welsh slate roof and 5 stone chimneys. Tudor Gothick style. T-shaped in plan. 2½-storey, 4-bay south front, with 1st and 3rd bays stepping forward under gables. These have projecting 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed windows in massive chamfered stone surrounds below and similar windows, supported on moulded brackets under hood moulds above. Top storey has a 3-light casement under a chamfered head in the barge-boarded gables. 2nd bay has a massive projecting porch with chamfered jambs, contains a 4-centred arched doorcase with a pair of heavy Gothick doors. End bay to right has single lights under hood moulds. Castellated enclosed bridge over passage to rear. Interior: Hall has Tudor panelled ceiling with facial and foliage bosses. Dog-leg mahogany staircase has pierced iron balusters and trefoil mouldings on the newels and open string. Room to left of hall has Elizabethan panelled ceiling with pendants in circular panels. Room to right of hall has Gothick blind arcading as a cornice for a panelled ceiling. Room to the rear of this has a broad frieze of a delicate running foliage pattern. Most doors and shutters have trefoil cusped heads to lancet mouldings.
Listing NGR: SJ9347578082
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57934
- 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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