Hurdsfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1977. House.
Hurdsfield House
- WRENN ID
- sombre-keep-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1977
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
MACCLESFIELD
SJ97SW BROCKLEHURST AVENUE 886-1/4/8 (North side) 17/03/77 Hurdsfield House
II
House, formerly used as welfare centre, disused at time of survey. c1800 with later alterations. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof. 3-storeyed. Entrance front faces west: 5-window range with central doorway in stone porch with Doric architrave, and wrought-iron railings to balcony above tall window with entablature above, probably lighting entrance and stair hall. Flanking windows are sashes (mainly boarded over at time of inspection) in moulded architraves. Angle quoins. South front originally a 3-window range with slightly advanced central bay, extended by 1 bay to the right. Windows mostly renewed in original openings with flat-arched gauged brick heads with keystones. To the rear, in the angle of the 2 main ranges, a hipped roofed mid C19 service extension. Said to have been built by the Brocklehurst family, a noted local silk manufacturing family.
Listing NGR: SJ9239774309
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