Description

MACCLESFIELD

SJ97SW BROCKLEHURST AVENUE 886-1/4/8 (North side) 17/03/77 Hurdsfield House

II

House, formerly used as welfare centre, disused at time of survey. c1800 with later alterations. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof. 3-storeyed. Entrance front faces west: 5-window range with central doorway in stone porch with Doric architrave, and wrought-iron railings to balcony above tall window with entablature above, probably lighting entrance and stair hall. Flanking windows are sashes (mainly boarded over at time of inspection) in moulded architraves. Angle quoins. South front originally a 3-window range with slightly advanced central bay, extended by 1 bay to the right. Windows mostly renewed in original openings with flat-arched gauged brick heads with keystones. To the rear, in the angle of the 2 main ranges, a hipped roofed mid C19 service extension. Said to have been built by the Brocklehurst family, a noted local silk manufacturing family.

Listing NGR: SJ9239774309

External Links

• Hurdsfield House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5946468

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)