BANDSTAND IN ECCLESTON FERRY FARMHOUSE GARDEN

BANDSTAND IN ECCLESTON FERRY FARMHOUSE GARDEN, ALDFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1130636
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: BANDSTAND IN ECCLESTON FERRY FARMHOUSE GARDEN
Statutory Address:: BANDSTAND IN ECCLESTON FERRY FARMHOUSE GARDEN, ALDFORD ROAD

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Date:: 1999-10-02
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1130636
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: BANDSTAND IN ECCLESTON FERRY FARMHOUSE GARDEN
Statutory Address 1:: BANDSTAND IN ECCLESTON FERRY FARMHOUSE GARDEN, ALDFORD 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BANDSTAND IN ECCLESTON FERRY FARMHOUSE GARDEN, 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 41604 62137

Details

SJ 46 SW HUNTINGTON C P ALDFORD ROAD (West Side)

5/52 Bandstand in Eccleston Ferry Farmhouse garden.

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Bandstand or covered cafe area: dated 1888 by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster. Open timber framing on ashlar red sandstone plinth, red tile roof. Rectangular plan. Chamfered plinth carries a low wooden balustrade with rectangular balusters and heavy wooden posts with arch bracing to wall plate. South gable has chamfered doorcase to cellar, slightly canted corners to plinth. Date on tiebeam and large diamond-shaped plaster panel of goddess with serpent staff and cornucopia, flanked by dolphins and with the motto PEACE AND PLENTY. Stone steps against west side and entry in north side. Interior: of 2 bays with massive roof trusses of a tiebeam and 2 diagonal struts.

A cafe and bandstand were established here by the 1st Duke for visitors from Chester taking boat trips down the river, and people from his estate who could take the ferry until the time of the 2nd World War.

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Listing NGR: SJ4160462137

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Legacy System number:: 55501
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.