Keepers Cottage
Keepers Cottage., Brookledge Lane, Adlington, SK10 4JX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329972
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Keepers Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Keepers Cottage., Brookledge Lane, Adlington, SK10 4JX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329972
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Keepers Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Keepers Cottage., Brookledge Lane, Adlington, SK10 4JX
- Statutory Address 2:
- Keepers Cottage., Brookledge Lane, Adlington, SK10 4JX
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:
- Keepers Cottage., Brookledge Lane, Adlington, SK10 4JX
- Statutory Address:
- Keepers Cottage., Brookledge Lane, Adlington, SK10 4JX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Adlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 93169 80117
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 February 2023 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
SJ 98 SW
3/3
ADLINGTON C.P.
BROOKLEDGE LANE (South Side)
Keepers Cottage.
(Formerly listed as Styperson Park Cottage)
II
Cottage and shippon: probably C16 origins, fabric late C17 with alterations since. Coursed sandstone rubble, Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge, one brick and one massive stepped stone gable chimney. Two storey, five bay south front. Right end bay has a two-light wooden casement with the remains of a hood mould. Adjacent is a lean-to porch with a heavy flagged roof with a doorcase with a chamfered lintel behind. Remaining windows are two- or three-light wooden casements with a left end at door to the shippon with a square pitch hole above.
Interior: heavily chamfered ceiling beams (some boxed in). Good iron range in massive chimney breast. This gable wall has some hidden timber framing. In parlour early Victorian fireplace has freemason's symbols and a cast iron grate. Some three-board doors. This was the gamekeeper of Styperson Park's cottage.
Listing NGR: SJ9316980117
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58169
- 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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