Building record 14307 - Brookside Cottage, Radway Green Road

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Description from National Heritage List for Brookside Cottage, Grade II listed: Formerly shop with a cottage adjoining, now one dwelling, late C19. Red brick with planted timbers at first floor and gabled tile roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with 2-bay return. The east front has entrance in verandah with roof supported by turned posts off low stone coped wall. Twin mullion and transome ground floor windows with glazing bars, stone sills and deep stone lintels. Planted timbers at first floor level with mainly three-light casements. The centre bay projects and is gabled with cove-jettied apex surmounting a square oriel on brackets. The north front has four panel door with upper section glazed and the first floor casement windows in a gable and a dormer. Listed for group value only.

<2> pwa - Philip Wootton Architect, 2018, Brookside Cottage, Radway Green Rd, Barthomley, Cheshire, CW2 5PG: Heritage, Design and Access Statement, R4180 (Client Report). SCH8487.

An assessment was undertaken in January 2018 to outline the historic and architectural interest of Brookside Cottage, Radway Green Road, Barthomley, prior to proposed extension. Brookside Cottage is a Grade II listed, nineteenth century family dwelling, originally created from a shop with attached cottage, although research carried out for this study suggests that the building may also have housed a post office. Details of the architect could not be established, however, the eclectic and romantic architectural styling of the building suggests a late nineteenth century date. A significant change took place in the centre of the village in 1867 when the Punch Bowl Inn, also known as ‘The Steps’ and an associated shop were demolished. These buildings were directly opposite the site of Brookside Cottages and the loss of the shop may have necessitated a replacement. An Ordnance Survey map of 1873-49 shows the Punch Bowl buildings missing and a Post Office label adjacent to the site of Brookside Cottages. It is therefore not unreasonable to suggest that the buildings were erected circa 1870.