The Apprentices House The Apprentices House Cottage

SJ 88 SW WILMSLOW FORMER U.D QUARRY BANK ROAD (north side)

1/300 The Apprentices House and Apprentices House Cottage 6/3/1975 II The grade shall be amended to read Grade II*.

SJ 88 SW WILMSLOW FORMER U.D. QUARRY BANK ROAD (North Side)

1/300 The Apprentices House and Apprentices House Cottage.

6/3/1975 II

Formerly apprentices' house, later laundry and 3 flats, now Museum display and flat: 1790 and 2 extensions in early C19 for Samuel Greg, in 1847 converted to flats. English garden wall bond red brick, Welsh slate roof and 4 brick chimneys. Rectangular in plan under 2 parallel ridges. West front of 3 storeys and 3 bays has 2 stone-coped and ball finialled gables. Windows are 2 or 3-light casements in chamfered 4-centred headed brick reveals and under brick label mounds. Central bay has an added brick gabled porch with semi-circular headed entrance and door of 5 tall panels behind similar windows on south front but blocked openings with segmental brick heads suggest original treatment. East front has a large semi-circular headed sash with glazing bars in original portion. Interior: Has layout and fittings of 1847 conversion, except one room with iron columns supporting upper wooden floor.

Samuel Greg was an enlightened employer of up to 100 apprentices both boys and girls, who lived in the house, and provided a high proportion of the employees in this rural mill.

Listing NGR: SJ8366983212