Building record 2218 - Cottage at Disley Hall Farm, Corks Lane

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Summary

Grade II listed former farmhouse which is now two houses. The building has a 17th century core which was altered and adapted in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is built of washed, coursed sandstone rubble with stone dressings and a stone-slate roof. It is a long rectangular downhill building. It was originally an upper house with a shippon (cow house) at the lower end, which was later converted into houses. No original features seem to have survived inside.

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Full Description

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 406482 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

The Cottage at Disley Hall Farm. (Formerly listed - 27/11/1963 as The Hall)
II
Formerly farmhouse now 2 houses: C17 core altered and adapted C18 and C19: Washed, coursed sandstone rubble with sandstone dressings and a Kerridge stone-slate roof with 2 stone and I brick chimneys. Long rectangular downhill plan, originally with an upper houses with rear, lateral, fireplace and a shippon at the lower end, later adapted into 3 houses. Asymmetrical 2-storey, 7-bay front. 4 bays to left are 2, 2-unit houses with C19 wooden casements (one with the remains of a hood mould) with similar windows in half dormers above. Plain doorcases. 3 bays to right have central door at first floor level reached by external stone stairs, flanked by 8-pane horizontal sliding sashes and a blocked 2-light splayed mullion window in ground floor to the left and 3-light central sliding sash to the right. The left gable end has a 4-light rebated splayed mullion window (only one mullion survives) and to the rear the original chimney is gabled and has the remains of a cyma-moulded mullion and transomed window. Interior: No original features survive.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1>XY Digital Archive: English Heritage. 2005. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 406482. [Mapped features: #40978 ; #56167 ]

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Location

Grid reference Centred SJ 982 840 (13m by 22m) (2 map features)
Map sheet SJ98SE
Civil Parish DISLEY, MACCLESFIELD, CHESHIRE EAST
Historic Township/Parish/County DISLEY, STOCKPORT, CHESHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 16 2023 5:14PM