Building record 15987 - 106 and 108 Buxton Road, Macclesfield

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 390919 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Pair of houses. No.106 the original building, c1806. No.108 added as servants' accommodation, c1850. Brick with slate roof. Two storeys, three-window range, the houses of unequal size. Central entrance to No.106, the door with eight fielded octagonal panels and traceried fanlight in stone architrave. Entrance to left in No.108. Tripartite sashes to ground floor, sash windows without glazing bars above, all windows probably of c1850. Moulded stone eaves cornice.

INTERIOR: No.106 retains its original interior, with tightly curved staircase with moulded tread-ends, slender turned balusters and swept rail, lit by full-height round-arched window with panelled rebates and reeded architrave to rear. Niche in wall to staircase, with original built-in cupboard. Acanthus plasterwork frieze over stairway. Delicate Adam-style plasterwork to drawing room ceiling, forming garlanded panels with central rosette, and acanthus frieze. Internal doorways all in reeded architraves with rosettes, the panelled doors retaining their original door furniture, with delicately worked handles and finger plates in brass and wood.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: short length of original cast-iron railing adjoins No.108. The original house is said to have been built by a silk manufacturer, who also built the adjacent weavers' houses, Nos 100-104 Buxton Road (qv).