Hutton Dene & Beech Holme
Location/Address
47-49, Stamford Road, Bowdon, Altrincham WA14 2JN
Type
Description
A building of the current footprint is shown in this location on an 1870’s OS map and the design and appearance of the existing building would correspond to a building of that date.
The 1870s OS map shows a layout with the semi-detached built form extending back into the site terminating with attached outhouse(?) built form and a rear yard behind each house. The yards were enclosed by walls and detached outbuildings between the yards and north boundary of the curtilage which they abut. Driveways serving the houses and their yards were accessed from Stamford Road. Each house had a good sized front garden and substantial side garden shown as subdivided by pathways with considerable tree planting and also glasshouses. The extent of curtilage of No.49 appears to remain unchanged but that of No.47 has been reduced by over half at some point during or since the 1960’s for infill residential development consisting of Charter House and Grange House fronting Enville Road.
The main built form originally had a ‘T’ shaped plan form with a wider front range building and a narrower rear range with its roof ridge at right angles to that of the front range.
The front range of the building is two storey. The principal elevation facing the road is symmetrical, in red brick with limited stone detailing and has a shared central pediment above a strongly expressed cornice feature containing a concealed gutter. This elevation contains the two front doors with glazed fanlights and a shared canopy supported by classical columns and each house has a large ground floor eight-over-eight sash window and two six-over-six sash windows at first floor.
In contrast the remainder of the elevations of the main built form are finished in a white stucco or render.
Both houses now have two storey canted bay windows to the side elevations of the front range of the building. Only that of No.49 was shown as being in place on the but disappeared from subsequent maps until reappearing at some point between the 1930’s and 1960’s and has a flat roof. The bay on No.47 had appeared by around 1900 and has a characterful multi-pitch slate roof corresponding to the canted plan form.
The original rear ranges are principally three storey in scale but with various attached one and two storey elements some of which may be original although both houses have two storey side extensions that ‘square-off’ the original ‘T’ shaped plan-form and, in the case of No.49, is flat-roofed and not wholly sympathetic in design.
Pitched roofs are in slate and chimneys survive. Many windows appear original or are of a type and design appropriate to the age of the host built form.
Overall the original and historic built form retains architectural features and remains legible. The more recent change has not undermined this legibility or character to an unacceptable extent.
The detached rear outbuildings in exposed brick and slate roofs remain although in an altered state which has included some demolition and extension. They nevertheless maintain a sense of the original layout of built form and relationship to the rear yards and main house. The over-sized goal-mouth patio door incorporated into the outbuilding extension at No.49 is not ideal.
The road boundary is demarcated by an original/historic brick wall with stone coping augmented by a timber fence and mature planting. No.47 retains three stone gate posts defining vehicle and pedestrian gateways. No. 49 has no such posts and now has a brickwall within its curtilage to separate the front garden (given over to vehicle hard surfacing) from the side garden and rear yard which greatly reduces the legibility of the original layout. The loss of much of the original external curtilage of No.47 has had a similarly harmful impact. None of the footpath layout shown in the 1870’s OS map remains but at least a distinction remains between the original yard areas and soft landscaped garden. It is noted that the remaining within curtilage setting would be capable of appropriate restoration in the future.
Statement of Significance
Asset type
Building
Date Listed
24 Jul 2023
Last Updated
19 Jun 2023
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