HALEWOOD ROAD

Brown Cow public house. Formerly 2 early C19 cottages, with late Victorian black and white frontage, asymmetrical. Slate roof with tile cresting, brick chimneys, gabled porch flanked by rectangular bay windows with 'Ipswich' centres, upper windows project, but not so far; all have small panes. Yard entrance on the left with wooden doors.

No.16. (Not statutorily listed, but of 'local interest'.) Mid C19 cottage with ground floor altered to shop, brick with stone band and stone wall plate and boxed eaves; modern door, upper floor has 2 12-paned sash windows.

GRANGE LANE

Conservative Club. Built 1958, single storey brick with 14-inch piers to carry roof trusses; many additions in a variety of bricks & artificial green stone. Scale, proportions, character of fenestration & materials not worthy of such a prominent site.

Grange Lane Shops. Built 1964-6, typical development of its date, not an adequate quality of design for such a large addition to the street scene. Change of brick is unfortunate.

York Cottages. Two terraces of artizans cottages built c.1840 brick, 2-storey, with round-arched doorways & blind fanlights, and 1 segmental arched sliding sash window on each floor. Of especial interest this year as the rehabilitation of more than half of them has just been finished & they are re-occupied. (Site work and landscaping not yet complete).

Institute. Built 1838 as a National School, 3-bays, hipped roof, roughcast on brick, re-windowed, became Institute 1887.

Riding School. Built 1895 for Col. Hall Walker (Lord Wavertree). Architect Richard Beckett from Cheshire. Generous plan provided 10 loose boxes, still used for horses and dwellings. Brick base, half-timbered upper walls, long plan, green slate roof, 3 gabled hay lofts & 3 roof louvres; 2 gables to cottages on left, stone mullioned windows, Art Nouveau lintel, wood mullioned windows to stables. Design in functional Cheshire tradition, no elaboration with quatrefoils & lozenges on a building for horses. Cottage on the right a modern extension to the composition 1968 by Rosario Zammit.

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