Balderton Dairy
Balderton Dairy, Balderton
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115836
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Balderton Dairy
- Statutory Address:
- Balderton Dairy, Balderton
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115836
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Balderton Dairy
- Statutory Address 1:
- Balderton Dairy, Balderton
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Balderton Dairy, Balderton
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dodleston
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 37260 62282
Details
SJ 36 SE
2/10000
DODLESTON
Balderton
Balderton Dairy
II
Cheese factory, now disused. 1874-75 by John Douglas for the first Duke of Westminster. Red brick and plaster-panelled timber framing; slate roof. One storey and attic and single storey. Four-bay main block with additional wings to right and to rear left.
Bay one projects and houses the office with eight-pane iron casements to a five-light brick-mullioned window above a string course. Above this is a jettied timber-framed able with boarded three-light mullioned window and oversailing verges. Bay two is recessed and has Tudor-arched doorway with quoined sandstone surround and boarded door on strap hinges; altered window to right; studwork beneath the eaves includes an original stair-window. Bay three is a gabled projection with boarded window beneath a taking-in door with overlight and hoist. Bay four has two boarded windows and studwork beneath oversailing eaves on struts. The roof over the office has catslide projection over stair outshut on left return; brick ridge stack set to rear.
Right end of range terminates in hipped roof; to rear of this is a large boiler-house chimney with sunken panels and incomplete top. Side wing to right of main range is altered.
Left return: to rear of office is a hipped-roof block with oversailing eaves on struts. Beyond this is a sunken single-storey storehouse with moulded-brick window.
Balderton dairy is a rare example of the cheese factories built on Cheshire estates during the late C19 when cheese became a mainstay of farming, transported by special trains from Cheshire to the northern industrial towns.
Listing NGR: SJ3726062282
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351183
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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