Building record 1346/1 - Site of Lapwing Cottage

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 59165 (Report). SCH1934.

House. Mid seventeenth century. Timber framed with rendered infill and slate roof (probably originally thatched). Two cells, two storeys. Road front: nine by three cells of small framing on rendered plinth. Door to first cell at left. Two 3-light casement windows to ground floor. Roof raised at some time when an extra row of small frame panels was inserted below eaves. Original timber framed gabled dormer with twentieth century three-light casement. Left hand gable end: three by three cells of small framing with angle braces and roof truss of principals and V-strut. Twentieth century wing added to rear and seventeenth century outshut.

<2> Historic England, From 2015, Notification of inclusion, amendment or removal from the List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, Goodyear V, 23/06/2022 (Written Communication). SCH7787.

Lapwing Cottage was listed at Grade II in 1982 as an example of a mid-seventeenth century timber-framed cottage. In 2003 the cottage was dismantled, relocated and reconstructed in its present position, some 161m from its original position, to facilitate the expansion of the adjacent quarry.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ8272, 1909 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.