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MACCLESFIELD

SJ97SW BYRON'S LANE 886-1/4/27 (East side) 17/03/77 Nos.110, 112 AND 114 Spring Cottage (No.110), Foden Bank (No.112), and Greystones (No.114) (Formerly Listed as: BYRON'S LANE (East side) Spring Cottage, Foden Bank and Greystones)

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House, now subdivided as 3. Built in several phases, the earliest late C17, the rest late C18-early C19. Brick with stone-flagged and concrete tiled roofs. Spring Cottage (No.110) represents the earliest building on the site. Late C17 (re-sited datestone dated 1691). Brick with stone quoins and plinth. 2 storeys, 3-window range with central entrance and stair hall. Re-sited datestone over doorway, with initials HS (Harriet Stonehewer). Partially refronted during repairs, the windows also renewed as 2-light mullions and transoms, with flat-arched, finely gauged brick heads with keystone. Leaded panes in lower windows. Wide gables over outer windows. Foden Bank (No.112) was probably the second phase of building on the site. Late C18-early C19. Painted brick with stone-flagged roof. 2 storeys, 4-window range with 15-pane full-height sashes to ground floor, 4-pane sashes above. Moulded wood eaves. End wall stacks. Glazed entrance porch against eastern gable, leading to single-storey hallway. Architrave to doorway has Corinthian pilasters each side of wide 6-panelled door with traceried fanlight. Subsidiary range to left of entrance, a 2-storeyed, 3-window range with 12-pane sashes, modillion eaves cornice and end wall stacks. Greystones (No.114) forms a parallel rear range, probably a somewhat later addition as a ballroom. 2-storeyed, 2-window range, with wide tripartite sashes on each floor, those to ground floor of full height. Service wing projecting to south houses entrance, the fenestration largely renewed. INTERIOR: Spring Cottage retains 1 panelled room splat baluster staircase, consistent with late C17 date.

Listing NGR: SJ9233372009

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