Rock House With Retaining Wall and Steps
ROCK HOUSE WITH RETAINING WALL AND STEPS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130601
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Rock House With Retaining Wall and Steps
- Statutory Address:
- ROCK HOUSE WITH RETAINING WALL AND STEPS, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14323/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130601
- Date first listed:
- 28-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Rock House With Retaining Wall and Steps
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCK HOUSE WITH RETAINING WALL AND STEPS, HIGH STREET
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:
- ROCK HOUSE WITH RETAINING WALL AND STEPS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Malpas
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 48728 47270
Details
MALPAS C.P. HIGH STREET SJ 44 NE (West Side) 2/67 Rock House, with retaining wall and steps GV II
House, late C17 with early C19 front, of brown Flemish bond brick with grey slate roof. Cellar, 2 storeys and attic; 3 windows. The lower storey is 2 metres above street level, and has an almost full-length slate-roofed canopy, hipped to right and butting against adjacent buildings to left, on 3 shaped wooden brackets. Door of 2 fielded panels above flush reeded panels has rectangular overlight; canted bay window right has 4-pane front sash and 2-pane side sashes, square bay window, left, has red brick corner piers, 3 2-pane sashes to front and 1 to each side. The upper storey has 3 flush 12-pane sashes under camber arches and with projecting stone cills. Deep boxed eaves and open pediment verges; projecting gable chimney, right. Interior: Cellar. Chamfered oak beam and altered inglenook with bevelled oakbressummer in left front room. Door to right front room has late Georgian case; rear room has 2 chamfered oak beams, one ogee-stopped. Good oak stair of late C17/early C18 type has massive square newels, shaped rail of oak swept at 1st floor and 2 stout turned balusters per step, all painted. Oak purlins. Broad-board doors with long hinges and latches of wrought iron.
Listing NGR: SJ4872847270
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55610
- 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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