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Latitude: 53.2969 / 53°17'48"N
Longitude: -2.1568 / 2°9'24"W
OS Eastings: 389646
OS Northings: 377782
OS Grid: SJ896777
Mapcode National: GBR FZC9.VW
Mapcode Global: WHBBG.VD4C
Plus Code: 9C5V7RWV+Q7
Entry Name: Spittle House (west range only)
Listing Date: 6 July 1984
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1139569
English Heritage Legacy ID: 58348
ID on this website: 101139569
Location: Prestbury, Cheshire East, Cheshire, SK10
County: Cheshire East
Civil Parish: Prestbury
Built-Up Area: Macclesfield
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Prestbury St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: House
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PRESTBURY C.P.
BOLLIN GROVE
Spittle House (west range only)
GV
II*
Formerly part of monastic leprosy hospital, now part of house: perhaps C14 with C17 and C20 repairs. Timber framed on a sandstone plinth. Kerridge stone-slate roof and stone ridge. Rectangular plan of two bays. East front has ten by two tall rectangular panels with angle bracing of the wall plate and a glazed door in an earlier opening and an inserted C20 window. To left is an extension in rubble stone and to right in C20 brick.
Interior: three pairs of matched elbow crucks with a tie beam, two tall queen posts, a collar (later insertions) and a small triangular yoke. Wind braced through purlins and ridge. The southern bay appears to have been open to the roof and the ridge shows evidence of burning. The northern bay was of two storeys, there being slots for the joints in the tie beams and a rebated doorcase between the queen posts. The jambs of the crucks are chamfered.
The hospital was managed by St.Werburgh's Abbey, Chester who held the parish of Prestbury, and is a remarkable survival of a timber framed Monastic building of a simple plan and construction.
Listing NGR: SJ8964677782
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