Building record 1404/4/1 - Apple House

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58290 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Formerly summerhouse in corner of walled garden, now a house: early seventeenth century for Sir Thomas Stanley II, major late twentieth century additions and alterations. English garden wall bond brick with buff sandstone dressings, pyramidal Kerridge stone-slate roof with a ball finial and one brick chimney. Original portion square in plan and of two storeys. Stone plinth and quoins and projecting moulded bond at first floor. Segmental brick heads to two-light twentieth century wooden casements with glazing bars. One storey twentieth century extensions on three sides. Interior: brick-vaulted cellar, with stone flagged floor in which there is a well, approached by formerly external flight of steps. Curving stone coping to rebuilt brick wall alongside flight of stone steps to former front door.