Building record 15750 - Franklyn Lodge

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58223 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Lodge cottage: C1850. Rock-faced red sandstone with buff sandstone dressings. Welsh slate roof and two stone chimneys with pairs of octagonal stacks. Tudor Gothick style. Cross shaped plan. One plus-storey two-bay front. Left end bay projects under coped gable. Porch further projects and has a rectangular chamfered doorcase with a label mould. Pierced circular panels support heavy coping to balcony above. Windows to side of porch are triple round headed lights on colonnettes. In right end bay further chamfered doorcase. To left side is a triangular bay with a similar balustraded parapet.

<2> Hyde, Matthew, 1999, The Villas of Alderley Edge, p.79 (Book). SCH8722.

The lodge to The Ferns (demolished and replaced by Franklyn). Few villas in Alderley Edge had a lodge. It is an elaborate building, cross shaped in plan, and built of sandstone in a Tudor gothic style.