Description

KNUTSFORD

SJ77NE CHELFORD ROAD
792-1/2/8 (North side (off))
08/08/85 Ollerton Grange

II

Country house. Dated on a datestone 1901. By J Brooke. Red
English garden wall bond brickwork with sandstone ashlar
dressings, stone mullions, transoms, coursing, coping, lintels
and sills. Plain tiled roof with prominent tall groupings of
diamond-shaped stacks irregularly dispersed.
PLAN: irregular with service court attached at NE.
EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys. Jacobean style, the main features
of which are the groupings of shaped gables, the lead-roofed
octagonal stair turret to the main facade, the 6-light
transomed and mullioned canted bay window to the 2-storey,
crenellated octagonal attachment on the south facade, and the
square bay window attached to the forward-breaking central
gable to the garden facade.
The scattered fenestration is of square quarry leaded casement
windows with some later alterations of plain sheet glazing.
2-storey main entrance has a shaped gable with ball finials to
the round-headed entrance porch, and ashlar to 1st storey,
with 2 stage half-Tuscan columns on base plinth with scroll
work to entrance opening, becoming square columns on either
side of cypher on shield set on strapwork framed by courses
and culminating in attached obelisks on either side of 2-light
transomed window to first floor, which is surrounded by stone
cartouched shield of arms.
INTERIOR: has original features such as half-panelled hall
with panelled ceiling and open screen, Jacobean fireplaces,
inglenooks, friezes, swags and strapwork and a first-floor
gallery corridor with a series of semicircular arches.

Listing NGR: SJ7724677165

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667873

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living