Eccleston Ferry Farmhouse
ECCLESTON FERRY FARMHOUSE, ALDFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130635
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Eccleston Ferry Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ECCLESTON FERRY FARMHOUSE, ALDFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130635
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Eccleston Ferry Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ECCLESTON FERRY FARMHOUSE, ALDFORD ROAD
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:
- ECCLESTON FERRY FARMHOUSE, ALDFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Huntington
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 41615 62156
Details
SJ 46 SW HUNTINGTON C P ALDFORD ROAD (West Side)
5/51 Eccleston Ferry Farmhouse.
GV II
Farmhouse: dated 1887 by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster. Ruabon red brick with red sandstone dressings and some timberframing in upper storey. L-shaped plan. 2-storey 4-bay west front. Stone plinth. Right end bay projects under gable with timber framed upper storey with round-headed panels and curved bracing. 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed window. Upper-storey on wooden brackets over canted lower storey with small ogee-headed lights under a continuous label mould. Central 2 bays have a porch with a segmental stone doorcase with date and initials on the lintel. To right and above in gabled dormer are windows of 2 ogee-headed lights. Left end bay has blue brick diapering and an inserted C20 window. Interior: original oak turned baluster staircase but remainder somewhat altered.
In picturesque position, especially from Eccleston side of the river, and alongside the historic crossing point.
Listing NGR: SJ4161562156
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55500
- 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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