Building record 1065/0/2 - 3 and 5 Church View, Holmes Chapel

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 406394 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Pair of town houses, early eighteenth century. Red brick in Flemish bond. Both formerly had slate roofs but No.5 now has large twentieth century concrete tiles. Two storeys and attic, three bays each. Sashes with exposed weight boxes, glazing bars, stone sills and flat arches with keystones. Attic windows are casements in gabled dormers with barge boards. Six-panel doors with raised and fielded panels, external eaved architraves and wide linings and rectangular overlights. At the rear (east) an original, tall, metal staircase window. Gable-end and party wall stacks. Interior: Six-panel doors, mainly at first floor level. Open newel staircases with crossed balustrade members in Chinoiserie style. Ledged and battened doors at attic level.