Eaton House

EATON HOUSE, LOWER LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1138470
Date first listed:
14-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
Eaton House
Statutory Address:
EATON HOUSE, LOWER LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1138470
Date first listed:
14-Feb-1986
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Eaton House
Statutory Address 1:
EATON HOUSE, LOWER LANE

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
EATON HOUSE, LOWER LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Rushton
National Grid Reference:
SJ 57458 63394

Details

SJ 56 SE RUSHTON CP LOWER LANE

1/29 Eaton Lodge

II The address shall be amended to read: LOWER LANE

Eaton House

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SJ 56 SE RUSHTON C.P. LOWER LANE

1/29 Eaton Lodge

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- II

Farmhouse, now house. c.1840. Red Flemish bond brickwork with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. Two storeys with attic. Entrance front: three bays symmetrically disposed. Rendered plinth. Central gabled two-storey porch with four-centered arch. Three-light casement window above at first floor level with a chamfered stone sill and lintel and diamond-patterned lattice common to all the windows. Stone kneelers and coping to the gable which has a central window-slit. Similar 3-light windows to the ground and first floors at either side. The left hand side of the building has 3 bays symmetrically disposed with slightly projecting gabled wings to either side of the recessed centre which has 4-light latticed casement windows to the ground and first floors with 3-light windows to both floors in the wings and 2-light attic windows to the gables. There is a central gabled attic dormer with plain bargeboards and a decorated bargepost. The lateral gables have ashlar kneelers and coping. Built as an Egerton farmhouse this house is similar to Park House, King's Lane, Rushton (q.v.)

Listing NGR: SJ5745863394

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Legacy System number:
57223
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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