20. Mossley Canal Bridge No.65 


        This little-altered original hump-backed brick bridge of the late 1760s at first
        led only to farmland. Groups of cottages were built on both sides of the bridge
        when a horse-drawn tramway began bringing coal from Brereton Hayes Colliery
        to Mossley canal wharf via Sandy Lane and Horsefair in 1820. The earliest
        cottages, built on the north-east side of the bridge, have now been replaced
        with modern houses.

21. Mossley Tavern and adjoining row of cottages. Armitage Road.

The row of brick cottages backing onto the canal and adjoining the Mossley
Tavern has a front stone which reads “Mossley Place 1850”; and the pub, now
much altered, probably dates from about the same time. The cottages are
typical of the district for the mid 19th century and have group value. Numbers
67-71 existed by 1840, angled at the entrance to the coal wharf, possibly as a
check office and home of a wharf supervisor. The cottages and tavern were
added to the Conservation Area on 1st December 2005 following a proposal to
do this from Brereton and Ravenhill Parish Council.


 

22. Canalside Cast-iron Milepost (approximately opposite Garden Drive) 


This reads: “Shardlow 32 miles” and “Preston Brook 60 miles”.
It is a replacement replica milepost made in 1977 (with many
other replicas made to replace lost original posts cast in 1819
by the Rangley & Dixon Foundry, Stone).




 

23. Canal Bridge No. 64 (Grade 2 listed)

This original, late 1760s, hump-backed brick bridge led to the towpath-side one-time Leafields Cottages and farmland until it was made redundant by the building of Lea Hall colliery in the 1950s.
 

24. “Old Brewery Cottages”, Armitage Road

These several 2-storey cottages of local brick existed by 1815. They form an interesting and mainly intact example of early 19th-century housing provided
by an employer for his workers as an integral part of a small industrial enterprise. An 1820 map shows an iron foundry on the site, which by 1834 had become the brewery of William Walter Yeld. It was offered for sale in July 1850 with a main house, seven cottages and brewery apparatus. The south-facing cottages have
outwardly changed little over the years, with some upper windows still having small-paned cast-iron frames. Old Brewery Cottages were added to the Conservation Area on 1st December 2005 following a proposal to do this from Brereton and Ravenhill Parish Council.