Cheadle and Gatley are towns in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. The towns, together with the areas of Cheadle Hulme and Heald Green, contain 37 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, two are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The area is largely residential, most of the listed buildings are houses and associated structures, and the other listed buildings include churches and items in churchyards, a public house, two hospitals, a school, a railway viaduct, a memorial fountain, and four war memorials.
The sundial, converted from a cross shaft, is in the churchyard of St Mary's Church. It has a large shaped base and a square shaft with chamfered corners. On the top is a copper dial and an ornate gnomon.[2]
The cross is in the churchyard of St Mary's Church and is in red sandstone. The cross consists of a square shaft with chamfered corners on a moulded base. On each face is a niche with a hood mould, and on the base is a copper commemorative plate dated 1873.[3]
The church was rebuilt and restored in 1859–62, and restored again in 1878–80 by J. Medland Taylor. It is in stone with a stone-slate roof, and is in Perpendicular style. The church consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles with chapels, a south porch, a chancel with a north vestry, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, diagonal buttresses, a clock face, and an embattledparapet with gargoyles. The porch has crocketedpinnacles and the doorway has a Tudor arched head.[4][5]
A timber framed house on a stone plinth with a stone-slate roof. There are two storeys, two bays, and a lean-to on the right. The windows are replacement casements, and inside the house are timber framed partitions.[6]
Originally a timber framed house on a stone plinth, it was restored and considerably extended in brick in the 19th century. It has slate roofs and two storeys. The original part has a jettied upper floor and gables, and the gables have bargeboards and finials. Some of the windows are mullioned and transomed, and others are replacements.[8][9]
A farmhouse, later a private house, timber framed on a stone plinth with a slate roof. It has three bays, and had two storeys with a floor later removed. The doorway has a moulded surround and a dated lintel. Some of the windows are casements, and others are mullioned with moulded surrounds.[10]
A timber framed house on a brick plinth with a slate roof, and a brick extension. There are two storeys, two bays, and a single storey rear extension. The gable is jettied. Inside the house are timber framed partitions, an inglenook and a bressumer.[11]
A timber framed house on a stone plinth with a tile roof, it has two storeys. and three bays consisting of a hall and cross-wings, all with gables. The windows are mullioned, those in the ground floor being replacements. To the left of the middle bay is a porch and a doorway with a moulded surround. Inside the house are an inglenook and a bressumer.[12][13]
A house, later used for other purposes, it is in brick with stone dressings, a band, quoins and a stone-slate roof. There are two storeys with attics, and fronts of three and two bays. The entrance is in the gable end, and this is flanked by mullioned windows. The right front contains a bay window, a casement window, a mullioned and transomed window, and a dormer window.[14]
A house and weaver's cottage, extended by four bays in the 19th century and by another four bays in the 20th century, and since used for other purposes. It is in brick with a slate roof and has two storeys and a basement. Most of the windows are mullioned, some were workshop windows, and some have been blocked. On the front are 19th-century cantedbay windows, one with two storeys and the other with one.[12][15]
A brick farmhouse with a stone-slate roof, it has three storeys, four bays, and a later rear wing. There is a recessed porch in the left gable end, and most of the windows are 20th-century casements.[16]
A brick house with stone dressings, a dentilledeavescornice, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys, a double-depth plan, four bays, and a three-bay rear wing. The doorway has ¾ columns, an open pediment and a fanlight. The windows on the front are sashes, at the rear is an arched stair window, and the rear wing contains casement windows.[17]
The farmhouse is in brick, partly rendered and partly tile-hung, with a stone-slate roof. It has two storeys, two bays, and a lean-to on the left. The doorway has a segmental arch and a keystone. The windows are mullioned and transomed, they contain casements and have keystones.[18]
A public house in rendered brick on a stone plinth, with a bracketed eavescornice and a slate roof. There are three storeys and five bays. In the first bay is a carriage entry with a segmental arch and a keystone. The fourth bay contains a doorway with paired Ionic columns and a canopy, and in the fifth bay is a cantedbay window. The other windows are sashes, and at the rear is a round-headed stair window.[20]
A brick farmhouse with a 20th-century tile roof, two storeys, three bays, and lean-to extensions on the left and at the rear. The middle bay projects lightly, and contains a round-arched recessed porch with impost blocks and a keystone. The windows are sashes with keystones.[21]
A house that was considerably extended in 1984 and used as offices. It is in brick on a stone plinth, with stone dressings, a modillioneavescornice, and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys, an entrance of three bays flanked by three-bay wings. The middle bay projects slightly and is pedimented. It contains a doorway with side panels and a semi-elliptical radial fanlight. The windows are sashes.[22]
The chest tomb to the memory of members of the Crozier family is in the churchyard of St Mary's Church. It is in stone and consists of an inscribed slab with canted corners on diagonally set scrolls standing on a plinth.[23]
The milestone is in sandstone with a brick support at the base. It consists of a triangular shaft with "Cheadle" on the top and on the side are inscribed the distances in miles to St Anne's Square, Manchester and to Wilmslow.[25]
A brick house on a stone plinth, with an eavescornice and a hippedslate roof. There are two storeys and three bays, with later extensions at the rear. The central doorway is recessed with a semi-elliptical arch and a radial fanlight, and the windows are sashes.[26]
The viaduct was built by the Manchester and Birmingham Railway to carry its line over the valley of the Micker Brook. It is in brick with stone dressings and consists of seven semicircular arches on square piers. The viaduct has a springing band and a parapet with a band and coping.[27]
A large country house, later offices, the original part being in Neo-Norman style, with substantial alterations and extensions in 1849 and 1893 in Tudor Revival style. The house has an irregular plan, and is in brick with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. It is mainly in two storeys with attics, and the 1894 extension has a single storey and five bays. The doorway has a decorative Neo-Norman portal, above which is arcading, a Neo-Norman niche, and a copedgable. This is flanked by bays with mullioned and transomed windows, hood moulds, niches, and coped gables with pinnacles. At the rear are seven gables, bay windows of different types, a two-storey bow window, gargoyles and weathervanes.[28][29]
The hospital was designed by Richard Lane in Jacobean style. It is in red brick with sandstone dressings and Welsh slate roofs. Originally it had an E-shaped plan, and was later extended at the rear to form courtyards. The entrance front is symmetrical with a central block of three storeys with a basement, three bays, and a Tudor arched entrance. This is flanked by three-storey wings with 14 bays each, some with cantedbay windows, and some with gables. The rear cross-wing has shaped gables, and includes an archway with an oriel window above and a cupola. Behind the entrance block is a chapel.[30][31]
The walls enclose the four sides of the garden, they are about 4 metres (13 ft) high, and are in brick with buttresses and stone coping. The northwest gateway has a four-centred arch, a gabled clock tower, mullioned windows, coped parapets, and an ornate finial. Each of the other three gateways has a four-centred arch, buttresses, and a coped gable. At a corner is an octagonal ventilation shaft with a Gothicpinnacle.[12][32]
The school was extended in 1899, in 1903 and later in the 20th century. It is in red brick with sandstone dressings, decoration in moulded red and blue brick, and a Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys with attics and basements, and a front of 21 bays. The entrance is approached by a double flight of steps, it has an arched doorway, and above is an oriel window. In the flanking bays are three-bay sections that are projecting and gabled, and there is a five-stage tower with a slender spire.[8][33]
A convalescent hospital, later extended, it is in French Gothic style. The hospital is built in red brick with dressings in stone, blue brick, and terracotta, and roofs in Welsh slate with decorative ridge tiles. It has a cruciform plan, and is mainly in two storeys. In the centre is an office block, with accommodation for patients and services in the wings. There is a four-stage tower with angle buttresses, clock faces, and a two-stage lantern surmounted by a crown.[30][34]
Originally a café and baker's shop, it was remodelled in Art Deco style in the 1930s. It is in stuccoed brick, it has a tile-hung gable with bargeboards, and a slate roof. In the ground floor is a shop front, and in the upper floor is a cantedoriel window, both in Art Deco style. Inside there are café rooms, also in Art Deco style.[35]
The church was designed by J. Medland and Harry Taylor, and the choir vestry was added in 1904–05. It is in speckled brick with dressings in red brick, and has roofs of green and grey slate. The church consists of a nave with a west polygonal apsidalbaptistry, a cantedchancel with north and south vestries, and a southwest tower. The tower incorporates a porch, and has three stages, an external staircase, and a saddleback roof containing a gableddormer.[36][37]
The conservatory is in glass on a brick plinth and with a timber structure. It has a T-shaped plan: in the canted stem of the T is a semicircular-headed doorway with colonnettes and a keystone. The head of the T has five bays separated by pilasters and contains leaded lights, some painted. There is a timber eavescornice, a decorative clerestory, and a pierced ridge board with terminating finials.[38]
The lychgate is at the entrance to the churchyard of St Mary's Church. It has an ashlarplinth, a timber frame, and a stone-slate roof. There are three timber posts on each side, and an inscribed wall plate. The gates have vertical battens and cast iron hinges and spikes.[39]
The war memorial stands near a road junction. It consists of an inscribed graniteplinth, a sandstone square tapering shaft surmounted by a cross. On two sides of the shaft are bronze plaques depicting a serviceman in battledress.[8][41]
The war memorial stands at a road junction. It is in ashlar stone, and consists of a two-stage tapering square shaft on a plinth. The lower stage has a dentilledcornice, and in the upper stage are clock faces with hood moulds.[42]
The war memorial is in white granite and has a chamferedplinth and a pedestal. On this stands a rough-hewn rock-faced column in the shape of an obelisk. On the pedestal are bronze plaques with inscriptions and the names of the military personnel lost in both World Wars, and the names of civilians killed in air raids in the town during the Second World War. The memorial is surrounded by a fence of granite posts and chains.[43]
The war memorial consists of seven blocks of sandstone, diminishing in size to form an obelisk. The two lowest blocks form a plinth. and the block below the top has a carved wreath. The blocks below carry inscriptions and the names of those lost in the two World Wars. The obelisk is flanked by low brick walls with sandstone slabs on the sides and top; these contain wreaths and dates.[44]
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