Description

MACCLESFIELD

SJ9373 COTTAGE LANE 886-1/7/69 (East side) 17/03/77 Nos 1, 3 AND 5 Lark Hall Yard (Formerly Listed as: LARK HALL YARD, COTTAGE LANE Nos.1-7 (Odd))

GV II

Row of 3 houses, apparently built as stabling. Perhaps late C18; converted into dwellings mid C19. Brick on stone plinth with stone-flagged roof. 2 storeys, 4-window range, the outer bays advanced, and the roof continuing as a heavy overhang across the recessed central section. Central entrance to central house, which has a 2-room plan. Doorway in gabled lattice-work porch, a plank door in stone architrave, flanked by 25-pane cast-iron windows with tiny opening lights and flat-arched heads. Doorways of outer houses are in the inner faces of the advanced end bays. Plank doors in stone architraves. 2-pane sash windows in right-hand unit, blind round-arched recess in left, which has principal facade in return elevation facing garden. Beneath the overhanging roof, a range of nesting boxes for doves built against the soffits of the eaves. 2 axial stacks.

Listing NGR: SJ9303973494

External Links

• Wikidata Q26569178

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)