Police House
POLICE HOUSE, EATON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138413
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Police House
- Statutory Address:
- POLICE HOUSE, EATON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138413
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Police House
- Statutory Address 1:
- POLICE HOUSE, EATON ROAD
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:
- POLICE HOUSE, EATON ROAD
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 41206 62539
Details
SJ 4162
7/114
ECCLESTON C.P.,
EATON ROAD (East side)
Police House
GV II
House, c.1880, for 1st Duke of Westminster, probably by John Douglas.
Rectangular 2 storey, 3 window, in Jacobean style, closely imitated.
Coursed tooled sandstone with dressed surrounds to windows and front
door (west). Westmorland green slate roof: sandstone-coped end gables
with chimney on each rebuilt in red brick. Moulded first floor
string: drip-moulds over door and upper windows. Iron casements with
leaded glazing: shaped upper panes (lower storey). Framed and boarded
shaped front door. 'L' shaped single storey outhouse to north linked
to house by sandstone yard wall. Plain sandstone garden wall, linked
to house, with square pyramid-topped gateposts. The left end of the
Post Office (q.v.) is built against rear of the Police House.
Interior: Not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ4120662539
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55310
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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