ECCLESTON HILL LODGE INCLUDING GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED STORESHED AND DOMESTIC OFFICES (WEST)
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: ECCLESTON HILL LODGE INCLUDING GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED STORESHED AND DOMESTIC OFFICES (WEST)
List entry Number: 1136352
Location
ECCLESTON HILL LODGE INCLUDING GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED STORESHED AND DOMESTIC OFFICES (WEST), CHESTER APPROACH
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Cheshire West and Chester
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Eccleston
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: 55295
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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
Selected Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,
National Grid Reference: SJ 40902 62203
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