BIRCHENCLIFF FARMHOUSE FARMBUILDING AND THE COTTAGE, NUMBERS 1 AND 2 BIRCHENCLIFF

BIRCHENCLIFF FARMHOUSE FARMBUILDING AND THE COTTAGE, NUMBERS 1 AND 2 BIRCHENCLIFF, 1 AND 2, SHRIGLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232258
Date first listed:: 30-Jul-1979
List Entry Name:: BIRCHENCLIFF FARMHOUSE FARMBUILDING AND THE COTTAGE, NUMBERS 1 AND 2 BIRCHENCLIFF
Statutory Address:: BIRCHENCLIFF FARMHOUSE FARMBUILDING AND THE COTTAGE, NUMBERS 1 AND 2 BIRCHENCLIFF, 1 AND 2, SHRIGLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232258
Date first listed:: 30-Jul-1979
List Entry Name:: BIRCHENCLIFF FARMHOUSE FARMBUILDING AND THE COTTAGE, NUMBERS 1 AND 2 BIRCHENCLIFF
Statutory Address 1:: BIRCHENCLIFF FARMHOUSE FARMBUILDING AND THE COTTAGE, NUMBERS 1 AND 2 BIRCHENCLIFF, 1 AND 2, SHRIGLEY ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BIRCHENCLIFF FARMHOUSE FARMBUILDING AND THE COTTAGE, NUMBERS 1 AND 2 BIRCHENCLIFF, 1 AND 2, SHRIGLEY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pott Shrigley
National Park:: PEAK DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SJ 94844 80533

Details

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

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 407443
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.