Birley House

SK39NW ECCLESFIELD EDGE LANE (north side) Birley Edge

10/140 Birley House 9.8.74 GV II

Large house now offices. Late C18. Red brick in Flemish bond, sand- stone ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. 3 x 4 bays with lower 2-bay wing set well back to left. 2 storeys, symmetrical facade with central bay breaking forward. Band rustication to full-height ashlar pilaster strips at each end. Central double door and overlight with geometric margin-light glazing bars. Door flanked by Doric pilasters, matching columns to open stone porch with frieze and deep cornice surmounted by central shield motifs. Outer bays have sashes with glazing bars beneath guaged-brick flat arches. Band to 1st floor, Similar sashes above, central window in shouldered and eared archi- trave above fielded-panel apron, cornice. Wood cornice to eaves. Above eaves of central bay a section of coped parapet with sundial and end piers flanked by consoles. Hipped roof, 2 brick ridge stacks. Wing to left: Single storey porch with arched and hooded lintel set to right of low two-storey block with 16-pane sashes beneath wedge lintels. Right return: tall round-headed stair window. Left return: tripartite sash to right with cambered, rusticated lintel. Interior: entrance hall: panelled doors with applied geometric moulding, ornate plaster cornice and ceiling decoration. Staircase with barley-sugar twist balusters and wreathed handrail. C20 extensions to right and rear not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SK3303992813