Description

SJ 98 SW POTT SHRIGLEY C.P. OFF SHRIGLEY ROAD
(East Side)

3/101 Birchencliff Farmhouse
Farmbuilding and the
31/7/1979 Cottage, Nos. 1 and 2
Birchencliff

II

Farmhouse and 2 courtyards of farmbuildings: early C19, perhaps
c.1825. Farmhouse, washed and pebble-dashed rubble with sandstone
dressings and Kerridge stone-slate roof with 2 stone, gable chimneys.
L-shaped in plan with 2-storey, symmetrical 3-bay front with slightly
raised quoins. Plain stone surrounds to sashes without glazing bars,
semi-circular head stone doorcase with raised keystone and springers
surrounds a fanlight with radial glazing bars and a 6-panelled door.
Interior: Inspected in 1979 when described as much altered.

Farmhouse forms the eastern corner of a courtyard of buildings around
a rectangular, stone-edged pond. All the buildings are in yellow
sandstone rubble with sandstone dressings and stone-slate roofs.
North-east range of 2-storey buildings. To left, a piggery, with 2
round-headed entrances and a loft above reached by external stone
stairs. 2, 2-unit buildings (perhaps cheese rooms) join it to the
house. The south-east range consists of 2-storey barns now nearly
collapsed. The south-west range faces outwards onto the track, and
has 4, 2-storey, 2-unit cottages with horizontal sliding sashes with
glazing bars and plain doorcases to the left. The range continues
with a drift house with segmental arches, a similar cottage and a
3-storey barn with a segmentally arched entry from the yard.

The north-west range is flanked by 2 drift houses (one collapsed)
containing 3 shippons divided by feeding passages, all with board
doors under plain lintels, with 3 semi-circular headed pitch-holes
above, and a dairy with a 9-hole dovecote above. A second courtyard
is attached to the north-west and is divided into 2 by a low arcaded
building. The south-west range continues the facade along the track
with a corn barn with an elliptical arch to the left, then a drift
house and a 4-bay stable with plain rectangular doorcases with
fanlights above and semi-circular headed openings in the upper storey.
The north-west range has been reduced to a one-storey shippon to the
division with the remainder and the corner formed by a 3-storey
building with an ashlar 4-bay carthouse of low segmental arches, and
square openings above. The north-east range_has been demolished or
collapsed.

This is a model farm of early C19 date, and the home farm for Shrigley
Park (q.v.) which was rebuilt by Sir W Turner circa.1825. Identical
elements occur on a smaller scale at Redacre Hall (q.v.) another
estate farm.

Listing NGR: SJ9484480533

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26525801

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