Hillside Cottage And Attached Former Stables 40 Metres North West Of Oak Farmhouse

SJ 88 SW 1/264

WILMSLOW FORMER U.D. Styal Altrincham Road (South Side) Hillside Cottage and attached former stables 40m north-west of Oak Farmhouse.

GV II Formerly stables and grooms' house, now shippon and cottage: c.1865 probably by J.S. Crowther for Robert H. Greg. Timber-framed partly on brick and stone plinth. Purple tile roof with bands of fishscaling and a brick chimney with Tudor style stacks. South front of 2 parts. Left 5-bays of 1-storey are former stables. Doors at either end have 4-centred arched wooden doorcases and board doors with iron fishtail hinges. Between are 3 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed windows and some roundel and chevron timber framing. Timber coving at eaves and 2 louvred ventilators on ridge. Range continues with 1-storey, 2-bay cottage. This had close studding with large arch braces. Similar door and doorcase to left and to right are 4-light wood mullioned windows, the upper one in a gabled dormer with barge boards and a finial. Further coving on gable end.

The 2 brick ranges to the rear of the stables are not included in the item.

Listing NGR: SJ8339283678