Bankhead

BANKHEAD, BARNHILL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1229961
Date first listed:
19-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Bankhead
Statutory Address:
BANKHEAD, BARNHILL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1229961
Date first listed:
19-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Bankhead
Statutory Address 1:
BANKHEAD, BARNHILL 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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BANKHEAD, BARNHILL LANE

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

District:
Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Broxton
National Grid Reference:
SJ 48787 54613

Details

SJ 45 SE BROXTON C.P. BARNHILL LANE (North-east Side)

8/12 Bankhead

GV II

House, 1864, by Alfred Waterhouse, built as a dower house for the Bolesworth Estate. Red brick in header bond with red sandstone dressings; roof of banded shaped tiles with hipped gables and pierced bargeboards carries ridge chimneys with octagonal flues. An irregular plan, originally of 3 bays extended (in identical style) 2 bays to right. An irregular pattern of 1, 2 and 3 light windows with shouldered splays to jambs and mullions, contains recessed sashes without bars; staircase and porch windows have lattice leads. Gabled porch contains shaped double doors of oak in arched opening; ornate boot-scrapers. A square bay window right of porch supports smaller canted bay to bedroom above. Stone bands. Ornate circular windows in the 2 main gables. Interior: Broad dogleg stair with shaped newels and good turned balusters. Substantial 4-panel doors in heavy casings. All joinery is of pine. The massing and detailing is, for Waterhouse, plain and direct.

Listing NGR: SJ4878754613

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
404725
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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