1 (Clematis Cottage), 2, 3 and 4 (The Bungalow) Middle Lane

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SJ 45 NW 6/20

ALDFORD C.P. MIDDLE LANE (west side) No 1 Clematis Cottage, Nos 2 and 3 and No 4 The Bungalow

(Formerly listed as Clements Cottages, MIDDLE LANE)

GV II Terrace of four cottages, circa 1875, by John Douglas for the first Duke of Westminster. Brown brick lower storey; white rendered upper storey with bands of pargetting below bedroom windows and at heads of gables. Red tile roofs hipped with three dormer-gables to front. Two shaped chimneys. Of one and a half and one storey; each cottage is of one window. In the lower storey window-openings are camber-headed; in the upper storey they have moulded timber surrounds standing proud of the wall surface on shaped brackets. Arched oak porch under catslide roof, left; paired porches, with chevron panels, under a pentice roof right of centre. A single-storey wing, far right, contains the fourth cottage, with a timber-framed end gable.

Early examples of Free Style dwellings in Cheshire, the cottages were designed in conjunction with Nos.1 to 4 Rushmere Lane and the most southern pair of cottages on the east side of School Lane (q.q.v.). Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ 41880 59172