DANESFORD SCHOOL (NATIONAL CHILDRENS HOMES)

DANESFORD SCHOOL (NATIONAL CHILDRENS HOMES), WEST ROAD

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1130481
Date first listed:: 04-Apr-1975
List Entry Name:: DANESFORD SCHOOL (NATIONAL CHILDRENS HOMES)
Statutory Address:: DANESFORD SCHOOL (NATIONAL CHILDRENS HOMES), WEST ROAD

User submitted image — Uploaded by Barrie Price This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 1999-10-17
Reference:: IOE01/01721/32
Rights:: © Mr FE Hutchinson. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1130481
Date first listed:: 04-Apr-1975
List Entry Name:: DANESFORD SCHOOL (NATIONAL CHILDRENS HOMES)
Statutory Address 1:: DANESFORD SCHOOL (NATIONAL CHILDRENS HOMES), WEST ROAD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: DANESFORD SCHOOL (NATIONAL CHILDRENS HOMES), WEST ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Congleton
National Grid Reference:: SJ 85066 63146

Details

1. 5144 WEST ROAD (North Side) Danesford School (National Children's SJ 8563 2/42 Homes)

II GV

2. Late C18 detached house, formerly West House, set back from road in extensive grounds. Later alterations and extensive modern additions. Red brick; 2 storeys; 5 sash windows with flat brick with stone sills, those on east elevation tripartite in segmental-headed reveals and with semi-circular bay at centre, tiered over 2 storeys. Elevation to road has large pediment at centre and a tripartite window at centre of ground storey in place of former entrance doorway; eaves cornice; hipped slate roof. Interior much altered but retaining an oval room on each storey. Including large, well-designed Georgian style bay to left which has 4 windows and pediment and was added soon after the establishment of the school in 1920. Other modern additions are not included.

Woodlands. Dansford School and Obelisk in grounds of Danesford School form a group.

Listing NGR: SJ8506663146

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 55933
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.