Norman's Place (11)
Cross Regent Road into Norman’s Place. The street was named after landowner George Norman who in 1738 was asked to remove stiles from the track from Altrincham to Bowdon Church and replace them with stumps. Houses are late Georgian and early Victorian and this is a Conservation Area.
The Poplars was on the right is now retirement flats. It had whale’s jaw bones as an arch over the drive in the 19th century and was demolished about 1975. Oswald Leicester used it as the second Sunday School in Altrincham and it had a lecture hall. The Limes opposite is early Victorian.
Numbers 2 to 8 were built about 1810 and are listed. They were designed to a high standard for one person and a servant. They have barrel-vaulted cellars extending under the back yard, lead gutters and Regency porches. The builder also put in a well which collapsed during building but all were saved. Alfred Ingham the local publisher and historian lived at number 6 in the late 19th century.
The Elms is listed and was built in the 1750s with 19th century additions and was originally two houses. Richmond House at the top right is also listed, was built about 1820, incorporates an earlier building and was a school in the 1840s.