Description

MACCLESFIELD

SJ9373 COTTAGE LANE
886-1/7/69 (East side)
17/03/77 Nos 1, 3 AND 5 Lark Hall Yard
(Formerly Listed as:
LARK HALL YARD, COTTAGE LANE
Nos.1-7 (Odd))

GV II

Row of 3 houses, apparently built as stabling. Perhaps late
C18; converted into dwellings mid C19. Brick on stone plinth
with stone-flagged roof. 2 storeys, 4-window range, the outer
bays advanced, and the roof continuing as a heavy overhang
across the recessed central section. Central entrance to
central house, which has a 2-room plan. Doorway in gabled
lattice-work porch, a plank door in stone architrave, flanked
by 25-pane cast-iron windows with tiny opening lights and
flat-arched heads. Doorways of outer houses are in the inner
faces of the advanced end bays. Plank doors in stone
architraves. 2-pane sash windows in right-hand unit, blind
round-arched recess in left, which has principal facade in
return elevation facing garden. Beneath the overhanging roof,
a range of nesting boxes for doves built against the soffits
of the eaves. 2 axial stacks.

Listing NGR: SJ9303973494

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569178

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)