Music Room West of Clonterbrook House is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. Music room. 1 related planning application.

Music Room West of Clonterbrook House

WRENN ID
last-roof-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Congleton MP: Sarah Russell (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 February 1967
Type
Music room
Address
Music Room West of Clonterbrook House, Trap Road, Swettenham, CW12 2LR
OS grid reference
SJ 821 672
Coordinates
53.20194, -2.26905
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Music Room, located west of Clonterbrook House, is a former shippon dating from the early 18th century, now serving as a music room. It is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond and features a stone slate roof. The building is single-storey with four truss bays. The entrance, situated in the north gable, consists of a six-panel door set in an ovolo moulded frame with external lining and ogee architraves. Above the door is a shallow hood supported by ogee brackets, which is topped by a blocked pitch hole.

On the east side, there are three pairs of French windows with glazing bars, external ovolo moulds, and narrow hoods on ovolo brackets. These French windows are topped by oeils-de-boeuf windows with radial bars and are framed by two brick pilasters that extend to the eaves. The west side features an outshut with a catslide roof that continues from the main slope, covering a store of no special interest. The sandstone ridge is marked by an open bellcote with a boarded base, arched openings, and a lead pyramid roof topped with a weather vane.

Inside, an internal porch leads to a pair of doors with three raised and fielded panels and a brick staircase on the east side that ascends to the gallery. In the Music Room, plastered pilasters with ogee moulded caps support plaster panelled tie beams, each adorned with a glass chandelier. At the south end of the room, there is a raised dais and a screen of plain Roman Ionic columns that support a moulded beam. Flanking the rear of the dais are four unfluted Roman Doric columns beside two flush doors and a niche containing an urn. A central fireplace on the west wall features ogee architraves and a moulded mantelshelf. The door opening beneath the gallery on the north side is flanked by bookcases, and there is a reeded frieze around the doorcase, which is also framed and topped by panels in gilt mouldings, with similar moulds on the gallery capping.

Local climate

Music Room West of Clonterbrook House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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