Building record 16017 - 72 Macclesfield Road, Holmes Chapel

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 406438 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Cottage 1764 (carved on stone tablet over door) but this is thought to be the reconstruction date of a late seventeenth century building. Brick nogged timber frame with slate roof. Single storey and attic, two bays. One-metre-high brick plinth. Timbers in small framing arrangement to front and both gable-ends. Replaced oak door divided into three panels by vertical beads. Replaced three-light casements without glazing bars. Attic windows in gables only. Stone tablet over door inscribed T.B.H. and the date. Gable barge boards with finials. Central chimney stack. Twentieth flat-roofed addition and the rear south. Interior: Bevelled beams and exposed ceiling joists. Exposed chamfered purlins in the bedrooms.