Building Name

Holly Cottage, Holly Road, Bramhall, Stockport

Date
1905
Street
Holly Road
District/Town
Bramhall, Stockport
County/Country
GMCA, England
Architect
Client
H C D Chorlton
Work
New Build
Listed
De-listed 1989

Probably the last building designed by Edgar Wood in the vernacular tradition, Holly Cottage is a substantial two storey detached house. It was designed by Edgar Wood for his friend H C D Chorlton, a fellow member and former Master of the Northern Art Workers Guild and survives as a relatively well preserved example of Wood’s later vernacular work despite a number of later extensions and internal alterations which ultimately led to its de-listing. From 1904-1905 Wood’s designs evolved along increasingly modernist lines. The house was threatened with demolition in 2006 when proposals to replace it with two large apartment blocks were submitted.

ORIGINAL LISTING TEXT - House, now rest home. 1902-3. Edgar Wood for Henry Charlton. Brick with graduated stone slate roof. Large detached L- shaped house with 2 storeys and a later addition at rear. Single-storey porch within the angle has a hipped roof and encloses a door with segmental fanlight and side-lights. The left(service) wing has 2 bays with 1 and 4-light timber mullioned windows with leaded lights on the ground floor and 5 and 6-light on first floor. All windows have leaded lights. The right wing has a 6-light ground floor window, a 4-light dormer window with boarded gable and a 3-light window in an advanced gabled bay. The gable has a 4-light gabled bay window. 6-light gabled 2-storey bay window to garden elevation with brick lozenge patterns in gable. 1 and 2 storey additions to rear. Interior: quarry tile window sills and arched door openings.

 

Reference           Victorian Society in Manchester Spring 2007 page 3