Building record 14970 - Woodbrook House, Alderley Edge

<1> Historic England, 2011, The National Heritage List for England, 1276049 (Web Site). SCH6528.

House: c1845 for J de Castro, extensively rebuilt 1906 by C F A Voysey for A Heyworth. Cream brick, partly roughcasted, with brown sandstone dressings. Welsh slate roof and 2 plastered chimneys. 2-storey, 4-bay north front, under 2 gables and roughcasted. To left is tall 2-light mullioned and twin transomed window lighting staircase and adjacent is the semi-circular headed opening to the porch with a label mould above. Remaining fenestration of 3 typical Voysey mullioned windows and a circular light. Garden front of cream brick has 2 large lunettes below and mullioned windows above. Interior: largely unaltered. Closely set plain balusters in staircase with square mushroom finials to newels. 3 large tiled fireplaces, one with Voysey's columns. Built in astragal glazed bookcase in 1st floor corridor. Good door furnishings throughout.
A unique example of Voysey's work in Cheshire.

<2> Hyde, Matthew, 1999, The Villas of Alderley Edge, 116 (Book). SCH8722.

One of the first, listed in 1850. It was a pretty villa with twin gables. It stood in exceptionally fine grounds with a long drive winding up from Trafford Road.

<3> Hartwell C, Hyde M, Hubbard E & Pevsner N, 2011, The Buildings of England: Cheshire (2011 revision), p.92 (Book). SCH7059.

Woodbrook, a yellow brick villa built c.1850 on one of the finest sites. In 1905 and 1914-18, C.F.Voysey made additions in his usual roughcast and totally unmoulded mullions.