FORMER POSTILLIONS HOUSE AT SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF STABLE YARD
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1136231
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER POSTILLIONS HOUSE AT SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF STABLE YARD, EATON PARK
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER POSTILLIONS HOUSE AT SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF STABLE YARD, EATON PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eaton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 41419 60772
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55262
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing