Description

SJ 45 NW
6/21

ALDFORD C.P.
RUSHMERE LANE
(North side)

Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 (Rushmere View)

II

GV

Terrace of 4 cottages, 1874, by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of
Westminster. Brown brick lower storey; the upper storey partly
pargetted and partly timber-framed; red tile hipped roofs with 2
shaped brick chimneys. l½ and 1 storey; each cottage is of 1 window.
Three dormer-gables to front: one to right is timber-framed; two to
left are pargetted. In the lower storey window-openings are
camber-headed, with small-pane iron casements; in the upper storey
leaded glazing in shaped, mullioned sub-frames of timber with
surrounds standing proud of the wall. Pair of bracketted timber
porches separated by a timber-framed panel, under a pentice roof,
right of centre; a camber-arched timber-framed porch, left. A
single-storey wing, far right, contains the fourth cottage with a
timber-framed end gable.
With Clements Cottages, Middle Lane and the southernmost pair of
cottages east of School Lane (q.q.v.) Nos.l to 4 Rushmere Lane are an
early example of Free Style design in Cheshire. Interiors not
inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ 41835 59136

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q65930000

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)