Building record 2608/0/3 - Terrace of Garret houses, Paradise Street

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Summary

Grade II listed Terrace of 17 houses with weavers' garrets built around.1840. They are brick with Welsh slate roofs. Garret Houses are three storey houses where the upper storey was specially built as a weaving workshop. It runs the width of the house and had large windows. These houses were usually built as terraces. Much of the weaving of silk was carried out by outworkers who operated handlooms in such properties. Macclesfield was one of two silk production centres in Cheshire. It had a history of silk button making since Elizabethan times. Silk throwing (Twisting silk threads together) began as a domestic industry and became a mechanised process with the use of water powered machinery in the mid 18th century. The industrial revolution introduced power weaving in the late 19th century and many large mills were built at this time.

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Nos. 38-70 (even), Paradise Street. Terrace of 17 houses with weavers' garrets. 3 storeyed, each house a single room double pile plan, the terrace stepped accomodating the steeply sloping site. c.1840. Brick with Welsh slate roofs. Round arched doorways and renewed 6 panelled doors. Steps with iron railings to top houses. 4 pane sash windows with flat arched heads, and long garret windows in each elevation, with horizontally sliding sash windows. Round arched passage entry towards centre of terrace (1).


<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 866-1/11/149 (Report). SCH1934.

<2> Ashmore, O, 1982, The Industrial Archaeology of North West England, /46 (Book). SCH3181.

<3> Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Revised List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, Borough of Macclesfield 1994/ 106 (Unpublished Report). SCH4570.

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  • <1> Report: Department of the Environment. 1971-2005. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. N/A. 866-1/11/149.
  • <2> Book: Ashmore, O. 1982. The Industrial Archaeology of North West England. /46.
  • <3> Unpublished Report: Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Revised List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. Borough of Macclesfield 1994/ 106.

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Location

Grid reference SJ 914 732 (point) Central Point
Map sheet SJ97SW
Civil Parish MACCLESFIELD NON PARISH AREA, MACCLESFIELD, CHESHIRE EAST
Historic Township/Parish/County MACCLESFIELD, PRESTBURY, CHESHIRE

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Record last edited

Aug 6 2019 3:56PM