Building record 5363 - Old School House, Wilmslow Road, Mottram St Andrew

<1> Cheshire East Council, 2010, Cheshire East LDF Local List of Historic Buildings (Report). SCH5404.

Former school building, circa seventeenth century. Substantially altered, but with some original details. Local stone construction.

<2> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 282/2, c.1848 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

The school building is not depicted, but the surrounding plot on Healey Hill Common is. The award describes the plot as a Cottage, School and Garden occupied by Joshua Cragg and owned by the Reverend Henry Wright and others, trustees of Mottram School.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ8778, 1872-1875 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

This map depicts the school building.

<4> Various, Various, Cheshire Life, August 1962 p.34-7 (Journal/Periodical). SCH837.

The building was originally a seventeenth-century one-up-and-one-down chicken farm to the Old Hall. Later a parish school until c.1912. During the Second World War the building was a Home Guard headquarters and in 1947 became the home of the local district nurse. The house was extensively rebuilt on its original plan as part of renovations undertaken by the owners.