Building record 164/0/7 - Houses on High Street, Congleton

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 55880 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

A seventeenth century timber framed building with nineteenth century nondescript refronting in cement and roughcast. Two storeys and attic; two modern three-light casement windows with wood transomes and canted oriel window on right, no glazing bars; gable at each side, that on left with modern barge-boards and that on right with ornamental barge-boards and finial; plain eaves; slates; large stone chimney at rear of No 16 with restored brick stack. nineteenth century shop fronts. Passage-way between No 18 and No 20 having exposed timber frame extending along side of rear wing which has projecting upper storey the interior of which retains some exposed timber framing. The interior of No 18 has good moulded ceiling beams to ground storey. Said to have been an Inn.

<2> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Turner RC, 19/01/1987 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

All of this building may belong to a substantial timber framed courtyard house with a sixteenth century origin. Would repay more detailed survey.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1875, Metric Ten Foot Scale Town Plan of Congleton (Maps and Plans). SCH4541.

This map depicts no.20 as the Black Lion public house.