Listed Building: BRICK GARDEN WALLS TO ALDERLEY MILL COTTAGE AND THE APPLE HOUSE (1216840)

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Grade II
Authority Department for Culture Media and Sport
Volume/Map/Item 203, 4, 125
Date assigned 06 July 1984
Date last amended

Description

SJ 87 NW NETHER ALDERLEY C.P. CONGLETON ROAD (East Side) 4/125 Brick garden walls to Alderley Mill Cottage and the Apple House GV II Garden walls: early-mid C17 for Sir Thomas Stanley. English garden wall bond red-brick with weathered stone coping and stone quoins in the corner. The walls form a trapezium with the Alderley Mill Cottage and the Apple House (q.v.) in opposite corners, both former garden houses. The wall is c.2.50m high and has stepped square brick buttresses on the exterior and raking triangular buttresses on the inside. The circuit is complete but for extensions to the 2 garden houses and 2 added gates other than those with the fine stone piers listed separately. This was a large formal C17 walled garden associated with the Old Hall (q.v.). Listed for group value only. Listing NGR: SJ8429776421

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Sources (1)

  • Digital Archive: English Heritage. 2005. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 58292. [Mapped features: #3422 58292; #8728 58292]

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SJ 8433 7640 (74m by 98m) (2 map features)
Map sheet SJ87NW
Civil Parish NETHER ALDERLEY, MACCLESFIELD, CHESHIRE EAST

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Record last edited

Mar 18 2015 10:38AM