Ruloe House
RULOE HOUSE, WOODS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139195
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ruloe House
- Statutory Address:
- RULOE HOUSE, WOODS LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05371/06
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139195
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ruloe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RULOE HOUSE, WOODS LANE
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:
- RULOE HOUSE, WOODS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Crowton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 58309 72861
Details
CROWTON C.P. WOODS LANE SJ 57 SE (East Side) 4/8 Ruloe House II
Formerly agent's house, now house: 1873 by John Douglas for the Wilbraham Estate. Flemish bond orange brick. Red tile roof and brick chimneys with strip pilaster decoration. 2-storey, 4-bay south front. Moulded brick bands at 1st floor and sill level. Irregular massing to the front. Right end projects and has a circular turret at its left corner with tall conical roof. 2-light windows with moulded brick mullions. 2-bay centre has 4-light window of lancets with a stone mullion and half-glazed door to the right. Above is 2-light window in gabled dormer. Left end bay steps forward in 3 stages, and has 4-light mullioned and transomed window below, similar mullioned window above. Right side has gabled porch to main door and some blind arcading. Interior: Rooms lie off corridor which contains well staircase with turned balusters. Simple ceiling mouldings and wooden fire surrounds, one with "Delft" tiles and cast-iron grate.
Listing NGR: SJ5830972861
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57434
- 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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