Overdale
OVERDALE, TARPORLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227731
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Overdale
- Statutory Address:
- OVERDALE, TARPORLEY ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-11-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/05378/27
- Rights:
- © Dr John L. Wishlade. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227731
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Overdale
- Statutory Address 1:
- OVERDALE, TARPORLEY 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:
- OVERDALE, TARPORLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Delamere and Oakmere
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 59255 69657
Details
CUDDINGTON C.P. TARPORLEY ROAD SJ 56 NE (East Side) 5925 6964 5/29 Overdale - - II
Hunting box: c1875 by John Douglas for the Wilbraham family. White pointed English bond orange brick with red sandstone and terracotta dressings. Welsh slate roof and brick chimneys with strip pilaster decoration. Irregular plan. 3-storey, 5-bay west front. The central 3 bays have a 1-storey porch with a ridge parallel to the roof with 2 pairs of lancets with moulded band at impost level and at the right end is a 3-panelled front door with ornate hinges in a 4-centred moulded stone arched surround. Central bay behind is also gabled and lights the stairwell with mullioned and transomed windows contained within a giant pointed arch and with terracotta detailing in bands and in the typanum. Right end bay is also gabled and has a chimney up the centre with strip pilaster decoration. Remaining windows are sashes with bead-moulded stone lintels. Servants wing and stables to the left are simpler with ventilators and fleches on the ridge. Garden front of irregular masses has a pair of gables at the centre above a canted bay window, and a massive chimney in the corner. Interior: entry in anteroom with exposed timber framing. Main hall to the left which contains oak and pine well staircase rising full height, with turned balusters and column newels. Grained panelling in the well and forming dado. 3 stained glass galleons reflect the Wilbraham motto of "Safely into port". Panelled doors have rilled surrounds. Dining room has C17 style stone fireplace with a plaster galleon above. Living room has a corner fireplace and plaster panelled walls of running husks. Part of the building is-in Oakmere parish.
Listing NGR: SJ5925569657
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402169
- 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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