Salters Well House
SALTERS WELL HOUSE, ROAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138450
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Salters Well House
- Statutory Address:
- SALTERS WELL HOUSE, ROAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138450
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Salters Well House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SALTERS WELL HOUSE, ROAD STREET
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:
- SALTERS WELL HOUSE, ROAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tarporley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 55168 63087
Details
SJ 56 SE TARPORLEY C.P. ROAD STREET
1/75 Salters Well House
GV II
House. Dated 1783 to down-pipe bracket. Flemish bond brick with stone dressings and slate roof. Three storeys. Entrance front: 3 bays symmetrically disposed. Rendered plinth and fluted modillion cornice to top of wall. Central ground floor doorway above flight of 6 steps with moulded treads. Fluted pilasters to either side with cables to the lower bodies. Open pediment above containing fanlight. Door of 6 raised and fielded panels with fist and laurel-wreath knocker. To either side are tripartite windows with 4-pane central sash windows and lateral lights of 1 x 2 panes. Similar lateral windows to first and (of less height) to second floors all with wedge lintels cut in simulation of chamfered rustication with central fluted keystones. Arched central windows to first and second floors also with simulated chamfering to the arched lintels and ogee mouldings to the keystones. Right hand gable end: Lead down-pipe with dated bracket and moulded rainwater head to far left bearing initials S B. To the right of this are tripartite French windows at ground floor level with a sash window to the first floor of 4 x 4 panes and another to the second floor of 3 x 2 panes. The attic has a horizontally sliding sash window of 2 lights. All these windows have stone sills and lintels similar to those on the entrance front. To the rear: two- storey late C19 extension extending across whole width of rear. Above are two gabled wings each with a horizontally sliding sash window and cambered heads. Interior: Late C18 plan of 4 rooms to each floor with a central corridor with oak staircase of two straight flights with half-landings and ramped handrails with wreathed curtail, open string with moulded brackets and stick balusters. The back stairs have square newels and turned balusters to the lower flights. Drawing room: pine panelling below moulded dado. Dining room: panelled marble fireplace.
Listing NGR: SJ5516863087
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57264
- 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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