Building record 745 - Sculshaw Lodge, now Allostock Hall, Knutsford

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, Vol 2, p.3 (Report). SCH1934.

Sculshaw Lodge, Holmes Chapel Road. Mansion of late 17th century origins, but now of early 19th century appearance and with 20th century additions. Whitened coursed stucco, on brickwork, with roof of old slates.

<2> Department for the Environment, Various, Provisional List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /3/8/16 1965 (Report). SCH2744.

<3> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 1330180 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

SCULSHAW LODGE, HOLMES CHAPEL ROAD:- Sculshaw Lodge 3 January 1967 GV II Mansion of late C17 origins but now of early C19 appearance and with C20 additions. Whitened coursed stucco, on brickwork, with roof of old slates, laid with diminishing courses. 2 storeys, attic and basement, 5 bays flanked by later 2-storey 1-bay wings. Recessed sashes with glazing bars to main block 2-to-5-light flush casements to wings. Pair of oak three-quarter-glazed 4-pane flush doors in plain flush frame. Moulded eaves gutters. Barge boards and tall gable-end stacks. Original sandstone ridge. At the rear there is a glazed oak door to a C20 added flat roofed brick porch. Interior: Wide boarded doors on strap or HL hinges and six-panel doors. Bevelled beams. 2-panel Jacobean style panelled doors and wide boarded doors on HL hinges at first floor level, also bevelled beams. The stairs leading to the attic have splat balusters and there are wide boarded doors at attic level.

<4> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 1160317 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

STABLE BUILDING 10 METRES NORTH-EAST OF SCULSHAW LODGE, HOLMES CHAPEL ROAD:- Stable building 10m north-east of Sculshaw Lodge GV II Stable building with groom accommodation, mid C19 in C17 style. Brown brick in English Garden Wall Bond with slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays with a 3-bay rear wing (north-east) which completes an "L" shaped plan. Wide boarded, studded, door on strap hinges, formed into four vertical panels by planted fillets. The door is in an ovolo-moulded stone dressed opening with Tudor arched lintel. Projecting 3 course deep band at first floor level. Hopper light windows to ground floor and breather holes in cross form, to loft above. A central ridge louvre vent, with hipped zinc roof, sits astride the ridge. Interior: Half height softwood dividing and passage partitions with iron rod openwork above. Softwood boarded and joisted loft floor. Softwood king post truss roof with two lines of vertically fixed purlins. The rear (north-east) wind has living accommodation at first floor and garage below.

<5> Ian Rowan (Independent Consultant), 2020, Heritage Appraisal in connection with Proposed alterations and development at Allostock Hall, Knutsford, R4470 (Client Report). SCH8944.

A heritage assessment and photographic record was produced in 2020 in support of proposals for internal and external alterations at Allostock Hall, Holmes Chapel Road, formerly named Sculshaw Lodge, and its associated Stables to the north-east.

Allostock Hall, was originally built in the late 17th Century and subsequently altered in the 19th Century in a Regency style, adding a wing to either side with further later building additions. To the north east of the hall is a stables building constructed in the mid – 19th Century. Built from brick under a slate roof, with a stuccoed front and side elevation the building has been raised at ridge level, most likely in the 19th Century remodelling.