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Statutory Listed
Grade II
Date Listed 10/03/1975
Location Description
Address
27
Higher Hillgate
Stockport
SK1 3ED
Description
Group Value.
Nos. 23 & 27 form a visual group.
Said to have been built in 1742. Bought in 1783 by Samuel Oldknow, the "Muslin King." In 1802 left to William Radcliffe of Mellor, the inventor of the dressing frame. Attacked by Luddites 1812. 3 storeys in brick with dentil eaves cornice. 3 windows, now with 6-light mullion and transom treatment, gauged brick arches. Good doorcase with Greek Ionic half-columns and open pediment. Adam ornament to impost blocks. Radiating fanlight and door of 6 panels, 5 steps. Rear wing of three storeys with plain pilastered doorway, modillion eaves cornice.
STOCKPORT LIST REVIEW 2005-07
PROPOSED AMENDED DESCRIPTION
Summary of Importance/Criteria Decision
The late 18th century former townhouse is one of the few 18th century buildings left on Hillgate, the main road into Stockport from the south until 1825. The house is important for its association with Samuel Oldknow, a prominent local muslin manufacturer. The exterior makes a positive contribution to the street scene.
Historic Asset Description
The building was constructed in the second half of the 18th century, and is built of red brick, laid in Flemish bond, with a Welsh slate roof and gable end brick stacks. The 3-storey, 3-bay house has a symmetrical front elevation with a central doorway up stone steps, with an open pediment on half-round Ionic columns and semi-circular fanlight. 19th century 3-light windows have flat gauged brick arches. Timber box gutter at eaves.
The right return elevation is clad in later brickwork. The left return and the rear elevations have late 19th century bay windows. A 2-storey rear wing, originally built partly for stables and coach house has blind semi-circular brick arches to the north elevation, flat-arched windows and a dentil cornice.
The interior has been remodelled on numerous occasions and retains mostly 19th century or early 20th century features.
Samuel Oldknow lived in this house from c.1790 when developing the adjacent Hillgate Mill for cotton spinning and muslin manufacture. In 1802 the mill and the house were taken over by William Radcliffe of Mellor, inventor of the dressing frame. The mill was developed for silk plush and then hat manufacturing, in the second half of the 19th century, when Christys, Stockport’s largest hat manufacturer, used the house as offices. Until closure in 1997, this was Stockport’s last hat works. The mill buildings were subsequently demolished; the refurbishment of the house was in progress at time of survey.
Sources: P.Arrowsmith, Stockport, A History, 1997, Stockport MBC
P.McKnight, Stockport Hatting, 2000
Group Value.
Nos. 23 & 27 form a visual group.
Said to have been built in 1742. Bought in 1783 by Samuel Oldknow, the "Muslin King." In 1802 left to William Radcliffe of Mellor, the inventor of the dressing frame. Attacked by Luddites 1812. 3 storeys in brick with dentil eaves cornice. 3 windows, now with 6-light mullion and transom treatment, gauged brick arches. Good doorcase with Greek Ionic half-columns and open pediment. Adam ornament to impost blocks. Radiating fanlight and door of 6 panels, 5 steps. Rear wing of three storeys with plain pilastered doorway, modillion eaves cornice.
STOCKPORT LIST REVIEW 2005-07
PROPOSED AMENDED DESCRIPTION
Summary of Importance/Criteria Decision
The late 18th century former townhouse is one of the few 18th century buildings left on Hillgate, the main road into Stockport from the south until 1825. The house is important for its association with Samuel Oldknow, a prominent local muslin manufacturer. The exterior makes a positive contribution to the street scene.
Historic Asset Description
The building was constructed in the second half of the 18th century, and is built of red brick, laid in Flemish bond, with a Welsh slate roof and gable end brick stacks. The 3-storey, 3-bay house has a symmetrical front elevation with a central doorway up stone steps, with an open pediment on half-round Ionic columns and semi-circular fanlight. 19th century 3-light windows have flat gauged brick arches. Timber box gutter at eaves.
The right return elevation is clad in later brickwork. The left return and the rear elevations have late 19th century bay windows. A 2-storey rear wing, originally built partly for stables and coach house has blind semi-circular brick arches to the north elevation, flat-arched windows and a dentil cornice.
The interior has been remodelled on numerous occasions and retains mostly 19th century or early 20th century features.
Samuel Oldknow lived in this house from c.1790 when developing the adjacent Hillgate Mill for cotton spinning and muslin manufacture. In 1802 the mill and the house were taken over by William Radcliffe of Mellor, inventor of the dressing frame. The mill was developed for silk plush and then hat manufacturing, in the second half of the 19th century, when Christys, Stockport’s largest hat manufacturer, used the house as offices. Until closure in 1997, this was Stockport’s last hat works. The mill buildings were subsequently demolished; the refurbishment of the house was in progress at time of survey.
Sources: P.Arrowsmith, Stockport, A History, 1997, Stockport MBC
P.McKnight, Stockport Hatting, 2000
