Building record 355/2 - Nos. 1-4 Black & White Cottages, Church Lane

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 57075 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Row of four cottages, formerly one house and service wing. Late sixteenth to seventeenth century with eighteenth and nineteenth century extensions. Timber framed with rendered infill and painted brick with a plain tile roof. Two storeys. Entrance front: to right is the original house, now subdivided to form Nos.3 and 4. This has a projecting gabled wing at right with close-studding and middle rail at ground floor level and close-studding to the first floor with coving to the jettied gable which has a chamfered bressumer and brackets at either side. Three-light nineteenth or twentieth century casement windows to centre of ground and first floors with a two-light casement window to left at first floor level. To left of this is a recessed range with, at ground floor level, a nineteenth century six-panel door at right and to left of this two three-light nineteenth or twentieth century casement windows set in close studded walling. To the first floor at left is a two-light casement window and to left of centre a three-light casement window. Ridge chimney stack at left. To left of this range is a lower addition of later seventeenth or early eighteenth century date forming cottage No.2 with some timber framing but mostly painted in simulation of timber framing. Two two-light casement windows to ground and first floors with a ground floor doorway at left. To left again is a projecting gabled wing forming cottage No.1 of mid nineteenth century date with brick walling painted in simulation of timber framing, cambered headed doorway and two-light first floor doorway to the gable end. The right hand side of No.4 has 8 x 3 cells of small framing with angle braces to centre, left and right with a twentieth century chimney stack to left of centre. To the rear of Nos.2 & 4 is some timber framing mostly masked by nineteenth century outshuts.

<2> Hartwell C, Hyde M, Hubbard E & Pevsner N, 2011, The Buildings of England: Cheshire (2011 revision), p.472 (Book). SCH7059.

Jettied cross wing and framing in close studding.