Building record 2617/0/4 - Oak Cottages

Two rows of brick-built cottages, two storeys and basements, with a "parlour, a kitchen, 2 bedrooms and a cistern (privy) and a yard" (1). Mainly built in 1820, by Samuel Greg, with nos. 41-44 being built in 1855, for Robert Greg. English garden wall bond, orange or red brick, Welsh slate roofs and brick chimneys. Full architectural description of individual cottages in listing decscriptions (2).

<1> Quarry Bank Mill Trust Ltd, 1987, The Gregs and the Factory System, II/2 (Oral Communication). SCH3129.

<2> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 1/251-9 (Report). SCH1934.

<3> Pevsner N & Hubbard E, 1971, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, /347 (Book). SCH3078.

<4> Ashmore, O, 1982, The Industrial Archaeology of North West England, /63-4 (Book). SCH3181.