Kidsgrove is a civil parish in the district of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. The parish contains 29 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".[1] The parish contains the town of Kidsgrove, The villages of Talke and Newchapel, and part of the village of Mow Cop. The Trent and Mersey Canal passes through the parish, and the listed buildings associated with it are bridges, tunnel portals, and a milepost. Also listed are three tunnel portals built by the North Staffordshire Railway. The other listed buildings include a village cross with a medieval base, houses and cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings, churches, a vicarage, a chapel with a manse, a memorial in a churchyard, a folly, a tower, and a war memorial.
The village cross stands to the west of Cross House, and was restored in 1887. It is in stone, and has a medieval stepped base with an inscribed panel. On the base is a square shaft with wide chamfers, and it is surmounted by a cross.[2]
The farmhouse has a timber framed core with cruck construction, it has been clad and partly rebuilt in brick, and has a tile roof. There are two storeys and a T-shaped plan, with a front of three bays, and a rear wing. In the centre is a doorway, and the windows are casements. Inside, there is exposed timber framing and a cruck truss.[3]
A large farmhouse in Jacobean style, built in stone with a tile roof. There are two storeys and an attic, and a U-shaped plan, consisting of a hall range and flanking gabled cross-wings. The windows are chamfered and mullioned with hood moulds, and the doorway has a square head and a massive lintel.[4][5]
The farm building, which was later extended, is timber framed with painted brick infill, an extension to the south is in brick, and the roof is tiled. There is one storey and three bays.[6]
The house, which was later extended, is timber framed with plastered infill, the extension is in plastered brick, and the roof is tiled. There are two storeys and three bays. The door has a rectangular fanlight, and most of the windows are casements, one with a segmental head.[7]
The farmhouse is in rendered brick with stone dressings, quoins, and a tile roof. There are three storeys and a double-pile plan, with a main range of three bays, and a stone service range to the north. The central doorway has a moulded surround and a raised keystone, and the windows are casements.[8]
This is a folly built as an eyecatcher from Rode Hall by Randle Wilbraham. It stands on an outcrop of rock, and is built in sandstone. The folly consists of a round tower with an attached wall containing an arch, all deliberately ruinous. There are round openings in the lower part of the tower, and in the wall.[9][10]
The earlier portal is by James Brindley, and the later portal dates from 1824 to 1827 and is by Thomas Telford. They are in brown brick with stone coping. Brindley's portal is recessed to the right and has a rounded arch. Telford's portal has a rounded arch and a rusticated surround. the portals are linked by a retaining wall that continues for about 100 yards (91 m) and contains pilasterbuttresses.[11][12]
The memorial is in the churchyard of St James' Church, Newchapel, and is to the memory of James Brindley. It consists of an inscribed stone grave slab. On the slab is a metal plaque listing some of the events in his life.[13][14]
The tower is in stone, and is cylindrical. In the ground floor are three round-headed doorways, above which is an iron band, and in the upper floor are two rectangular loops.[16][17]
The church was later altered and extended. The original part is in red brick with blue headers, the north transept, dating from about 1850, is in stone, and the roof is tiled. The church consists of a nave, a north transept, and an chancel with a round-ended apse. At the west end is a 19th-century square bellcote with a lead-covered pyramidal roof. The windows have round heads and keystones, and contain Y-tracery, and the 19th-century west doorway has a pointed head and panelled spandrels.[18][19]
The bridge crosses the Trent and Mersey Canal and consists of a single low segmental arch. It is in red and blue brick with a stone parapet band and coping, and a rusticated surround to the arch.[20]
The house is in painted brick, and has a hipped tile roof. There are two storeys, a front range of four bays, and a rear wing. In the centre, steps lead up to a doorway with attached Roman Doric half-columns, a rectangular fanlight, and an entablature. The doorway is flanked by single-storey cantedbay windows, on the right return is a two-storey canted bay window, and the other windows are sashes or French windows.[23]
The former lodge is on the north side of the entrance to the drive to Clough Hall, now demolished. It has plastered walls, a modillioneavescornice and blocking course, and a pyramidal felted roof. There is one storey and a square plan. The west front has a sash window flanked by columns in a recess, outside which are semicircular-headed niches. The south front is similar, with a square bay window in the recess.[24]
The former lodge is on the south side of the entrance to the drive to Clough Hall, now demolished. It has plastered walls, a modillioneavescornice and blocking course, and a pyramidal felted roof. There is one storey and a square plan. The central door is flanked by casement windows. On the north front is a square bay window in a recess, flanked by semicircular-headed niches.[25]
The bridge carries the towpath over the Macclesfield Canal near its junction with the Trent and Mersey Canal. It is in red brick with stone dressings and consists of a single segmental arch. The bridge has a stone parapet band, a plain parapet, and rusticatedvoussoirs. On the south side the bridge ends in square piers, and on the north side it curves into the ground.[26]
The chancel was added in 1853 by George Gilbert Scott. The body of the church and the tower are in red and blue brick, the chancel is in freestone, and the roof is tiled. The church consists of a nave, a chancel, and an embraced west tower. The tower has four stages, a west door, clock faces, and an embattledparapet.[11][27]
The former school is built in freestone with quoins and a slate roof, and is in Gothic style. There is one storey and two parallel ranges, with a front of three bays. In the middle bay is a projecting gabled porch that has a doorway with a pointed head in the left return, and the windows are lancets.[9][30]
The vicarage is built in freestone, with quoins and a slate roof with coped verges on shaped kneelers. There are two storeys, a three-bay main range, a projecting gabled cross-wing on the left, and a lower two-storey service wing to the right. The doorway has a raised keystone, a fanlight, and a pediment, and the windows are casements.[31]
The stable, later used for other purposes, is in stone, and has a slate roof with stepped gables. There is one storey, and it contains garage doors and a casement window.[35]
The chapel is in stone on a plinth, with coved and mouldedeaves, and a hippedslate roof The sides have three bays, and the windows have semicircular heads. In the south front is a doorway with a semicircular head, pilasters, and a moulded cornice hood. The west front contains a doorway with pilasters, a fanlight with a keystone, and an open pediment, above which is a circular window. The manse at right angles to the left is in stone with a coved eaves band and a tile roof. There are two storeys and two bays, and the windows are sashes.[9][36]
The war memorial is in the churchyard St John the Evangelist's Church and consists of a Calvary with the statue of Christ in stone on a timber cross. In front are three stone statues depicting the Virgin Mary, St John the Baptist and, probably, Mary Magdalene. In front of these are two plaques with inscriptions and the names of those lost in the two World Wars.[37]
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