Description

MACCLESFIELD

SJ97SW BROCKLEHURST AVENUE
886-1/4/8 (North side)
17/03/77 Hurdsfield House

II

House, formerly used as welfare centre, disused at time of
survey. c1800 with later alterations. Brick with stone
dressings and Welsh slate roof.
3-storeyed. Entrance front faces west: 5-window range with
central doorway in stone porch with Doric architrave, and
wrought-iron railings to balcony above tall window with
entablature above, probably lighting entrance and stair hall.
Flanking windows are sashes (mainly boarded over at time of
inspection) in moulded architraves. Angle quoins. South front
originally a 3-window range with slightly advanced central
bay, extended by 1 bay to the right. Windows mostly renewed in
original openings with flat-arched gauged brick heads with
keystones. To the rear, in the angle of the 2 main ranges, a
hipped roofed mid C19 service extension.
Said to have been built by the Brocklehurst family, a noted
local silk manufacturing family.

Listing NGR: SJ9239774309

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Hurdsfield House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5946468

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)