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Statutory Listed
Grade II
Date Listed 10/03/1975
Location Description Rear of 9-13 Mealhouse Brow
Address
Portion Of Town Wall
Mealhouse Brow
Stockport
SK1 1JP
Description
SEE TOWN WALL, GREAT UNDERBANK.
STOCKPORT LIST REVIEW 2005-07
PROPOSED AMENDED DESCRIPTION
Summary of Importance/Criteria Decision.
Sandstone walls running to the rear and between properties on Mealhouse Brow. The walls are of unknown date, but their position and relationship with existing properties suggests that they have pre-18th century origins, while the character of the tooling suggests a 15th or 16th century date.
Historic Asset Description.
Wall of large sandstone blocks in the upper and lower basement levels of Nos. 1a – 3 Mealhouse Brow. No. 1a (q.v.) is listed in its own right. The wall returns to form the boundary between No. 3 and No. 5 Mealhouse Brow. These walls exhibit tooling marks typical of the 15th or 16th century, and there are areas where lime mortar is evident. They may relate to a building shown in this position on a map of 1680. Stone walls of blocks of varying size which exhibit evidence of repair and piecemeal patching run against the cliff of sandstone bedrock at the rear of Nos. 5-7 Market Place. These are included but they seem to be facing or revetment walls unrelated to the walls in Mealhouse Brow.
Ref: M. Nevell, No 1 Mealhouse Brow & Nos 7 and 8 Market Place, Stockport Interim Building Survey Report UMAU, 1998; P. Arrowsmith, ‘The Mealhouse Brow Wall, Stockport’, Recording Stockport’s Past, UMAU, 1996 p28-31.
SEE TOWN WALL, GREAT UNDERBANK.
STOCKPORT LIST REVIEW 2005-07
PROPOSED AMENDED DESCRIPTION
Summary of Importance/Criteria Decision.
Sandstone walls running to the rear and between properties on Mealhouse Brow. The walls are of unknown date, but their position and relationship with existing properties suggests that they have pre-18th century origins, while the character of the tooling suggests a 15th or 16th century date.
Historic Asset Description.
Wall of large sandstone blocks in the upper and lower basement levels of Nos. 1a – 3 Mealhouse Brow. No. 1a (q.v.) is listed in its own right. The wall returns to form the boundary between No. 3 and No. 5 Mealhouse Brow. These walls exhibit tooling marks typical of the 15th or 16th century, and there are areas where lime mortar is evident. They may relate to a building shown in this position on a map of 1680. Stone walls of blocks of varying size which exhibit evidence of repair and piecemeal patching run against the cliff of sandstone bedrock at the rear of Nos. 5-7 Market Place. These are included but they seem to be facing or revetment walls unrelated to the walls in Mealhouse Brow.
Ref: M. Nevell, No 1 Mealhouse Brow & Nos 7 and 8 Market Place, Stockport Interim Building Survey Report UMAU, 1998; P. Arrowsmith, ‘The Mealhouse Brow Wall, Stockport’, Recording Stockport’s Past, UMAU, 1996 p28-31.
