House Oakfield Ashton-on-Mersey

HOUSE AT ASHTON-ON-MERSEY. This house is now being erected in Oakfield, Ashton-on-Mersey, for Miss Stavert, by Messrs Torrance Brothers, of Chorlton-on-Medlock, from the designs and under the superintendence of Mr Robert C. Whitelegg, architect, of 29, Brazennose-street, Manchester. The house will be faced on all sides with Ruabon bricks, the roofs covered with brindled tiles, and the half-timber work filled in with adamant cement. The whole of the interior fittings will be of the best description, the entertaining-rooms and hall being finished in American walnut, with ornamental plaster ceilings, and wood mantels. All the hearths throughout will be tiled, and all the sanitary fittings of the best and latest improved type. On the side not shown in the perspective will be a large bay window to the drawing-room, and an angle bay to the breakfast-room, the latter being carried up to the roof, and finished as a half-timber gable. [Building News 4 April 1890 page 476]

Reference           Building News 4 April 1890 page 476 with illustration