Lea Newbold Farmhouse
LEA NEWBOLD FARMHOUSE, PLATTS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230250
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lea Newbold Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LEA NEWBOLD FARMHOUSE, PLATTS LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230250
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lea Newbold Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEA NEWBOLD FARMHOUSE, PLATTS 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:
- LEA NEWBOLD FARMHOUSE, PLATTS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldford and Saighton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 44157 59565
Details
SJ 45 NW LEA NEWBOLD C.P. PLATTS LANE (South Side)
4/87 Lea Newbold Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse: c.1880 by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster with some early C20 additions. English garden wall bond orange brick, red tile roof and 3 brick chimneys. Mid C17 style. Irregular plan of varied masses. 3-storey, 3-bay west front. Chamfered plinth and sawtooth bonds at 1st and 2nd floor. Left end bay projects under ornately shaped and finialled gable. Corbelled arcade over semi-circular headed light in ground storey, pairs of 2-light casements in glazing bars above and 4-light in gable. Central bay has added timber framed porch and similar windows above under a shaped gable. Single light in right end bay. South front has another ornate gable this time with strip pilasters. North-front has low staircase tower with pyramidal roof. Interior: Very plain and has lost detail. The playing with masses in a Dutch Jacobean style is similar to Douglas's design for Aldford Hall, Chester Road, Aldford. (q.v.)
Listing NGR: SJ4415759565
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405161
- 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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