Eccleston Hill Lodge Including Gatehouse and Attached Storeshed and Domestic Offices (West)
ECCLESTON HILL LODGE INCLUDING GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED STORESHED AND DOMESTIC OFFICES (WEST), CHESTER APPROACH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1136352
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Eccleston Hill Lodge Including Gatehouse and Attached Storeshed and Domestic Offices (West)
- Statutory Address:
- ECCLESTON HILL LODGE INCLUDING GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED STORESHED AND DOMESTIC OFFICES (WEST), CHESTER APPROACH
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1136352
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Eccleston Hill Lodge Including Gatehouse and Attached Storeshed and Domestic Offices (West)
- Statutory Address 1:
- ECCLESTON HILL LODGE INCLUDING GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED STORESHED AND DOMESTIC OFFICES (WEST), CHESTER APPROACH
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 HILL LODGE INCLUDING GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED STORESHED AND DOMESTIC OFFICES (WEST), CHESTER APPROACH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eaton and Eccleston
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 40902 62203
Details
SJ 46 SW ECCLESTON C.P. CHESTER APPROACH Eaton Park
3/99 Eccleston Hill Lodge including Gatehouse and attached storeshed and domestic ofices (West)
II*
Lodge/Gatehouse 1881-2 by John Douglas for the 1st Marquis of Westminster. Stone-dressed red brick with blue diapering to gatehouse; banded stone lower storey and close-studded oak-framed upper storey to lodge wing (right). Red tile roofs; shaped brick chimneys. 3 storey spired gatehouse with corner tourelles, rib vaulted carriage archway of two bays in E.E. style and carved armorial panels of stone. Conical-roofed staircase turret. Mullioned windows of stone and of oak to gatehouse and lodge all with patterned leaded glazing in iron casements. Ornate wrought iron gates to main archway and to lodge porch; ornate lamp brackets and lanterns. Arched framed and boarded oak door to lodge. Stone-walls of yard and outbuildings right of lodge form part of composition. Interior: Oak spiral staircase through full height of building; oak doors, mostly 6 panelled. Large upper room in tower with great Tudor-style fireplace. A bravura gatehouse, impressive for its grand scale, picturesque massing and rich detailing.
Listing NGR: SJ4090262203
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55295
- 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.
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