Listing Text

SJ 67 NE GREAT BUDWORTH C.P. CHURCH STREET
East Side

6/55 Providence House

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GV II

House, formerly girls' school, 1860's, altered. Brown brick; clay
tile roof. 2 storeys plus attic; slightly projecting front gable to
right has 1 replaced window per storey in chamfered openings; plain
bands at 1st and 2nd floors. 2-storey left wing has a 3-light
brick-mullioned window to each storey. Left end faces open
garden-court, with entrance to house in porch expressed as a broad,
shallow buttress containing boarded door in round-arched opening with
moulded stone imposts and red-brick voussoirs; picturesque massing
behind the porch comprising 2-storey square bay window; square chimney
on ridge of cross-gable with zig-zig brick infill to recesses between
flues; bold and tall shaped lateral chimney at rear corner of left
wing; 1-storey rear wing, formerly the school-room.
Providence House forms an attractive group with Providence Cottage and
No. 42 Church Street around a garden court open to the street.
Interior: No features of special interest.
Listed for group value.

Listing NGR: SJ6645477590