Dysart Buildings is a terrace of nine

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houses on Monks Lane in

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, England. Dating from 1778 to 1779, the building is listed at

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. It is located at 1–9 Monks Lane (), now a pedestrian walkway, opposite the former

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and immediately north east of St Mary's Church.

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describes the building as "surprisingly metropolitan".Pevsner N, Hubbard E. ''The Buildings of England: Cheshire'', p. 287 (Penguin Books; 1971) ()

History

The terrace was constructed in 1778–79 as a speculative project by Lionel Tollemache, the fifth

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, who inherited the land from an ancestor who married into the Wilbraham family in 1680. The Earl of Dysart was also patron of St Mary's Church in the adjacent parish of

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Description

Dysart Buildings is a terrace of nine three-storey town houses in red brick under a slate roof. The front (south) face is symmetrical, and

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describes the terrace as "perfectly even". Each of the individual houses has three bays. The entrance doors all feature wooden doorcases with flanking

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s and

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s topped with a

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; the windows all have plain tops and stone sills. At the ends of the terrace are projecting bays. The west end has an additional later extension. Each end of the terrace bears an oval plaque with the name of the building.Bavington G ''et al''. ''Nantwich, Worleston & Wybunbury: A Portrait in Old Picture Postcards'', plate 6 (Brampton Publications; 1987) ()

References

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