FORMER POSTILLIONS HOUSE AT SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF STABLE YARD
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: FORMER POSTILLIONS HOUSE AT SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF STABLE YARD
List entry Number: 1136231
Location
FORMER POSTILLIONS HOUSE AT SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF STABLE YARD, EATON PARK
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Cheshire West and Chester
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Eaton
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 02-Nov-1983
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 55262
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History
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Details
SJ 4160 EATON C.P. EATON PARK
9/66 Former Postillion's
House at south-east
corner of Stable Yard
GV II*
Postillion's House 1873 by Alfred Waterhouse for 3rd Marquis of
Westminster. Buff stone with roof of graded grey slates forming-a
truncated pyramid with dormer gables at base. 3 storeys, 2 windows;
joined to Chapel (q.v.) by 2 storey wing with arcaded passage in lower
storey. Leaded corner spirelets. 2 symmetrically placed banded stone
chimneys with circular flues; larger chimney to north. Octagonal
corner buttresses. Windows have shaped mullions and transomes and
patterned leaded glazing. Central half-dormers to south, east and
north, the southern one carved. 2 full-dormers, one carved, to west.
Entrance from the former Hall is via the chapel narthex and the
arcaded passage; from the stable yard by a pentice-roofed porch. The
east side shows the marks of a demolished wing.
Interior: Not inspected.
The house, in C16 chateau style, and the Chapel were designed as the
northern wing to the former Hall, to be seen from the garden (east)
and the entrance court (west).
Listing NGR: SJ4141960772
Selected Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,
National Grid Reference: SJ 41419 60772
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