Description

SJ 87 NE MOTTRAM ST.ANDREW C.P. SMITHY LANE (North Side)

5/85 Keeper's Close

II

Formerly farmhouse, later gamekeeper's house, now a house: early C17
with C18 and later C20 alterations and additions. English garden wall
bond red brick on sandstone plinth. Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone
ridge and 1 ridge and 1 gable brick chimney. Rectangular plan.
2-storey, 4 bay front. End bays under gables have 3-light casements
with applied lead glazing and 3-light stone mullion windows above
partly with original leaded glazing. Door to left of centre behind
added gabled brick porch with a 2-light stone mullion window above.
To right are similar 3-light casement and 3-light stone mullioned
windows. Small C20 addition in keeping.

Has a standard plan of late C16/early C17 Mottram estate farms (see
Higher Farmhouse (q.v.)) and may have had timber-framed origins.

Listing NGR: SJ8818378686

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26431847

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