The Rookery
THE ROOKERY, GATESHEATH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230258
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROOKERY, GATESHEATH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230258
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROOKERY, GATESHEATH 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:
- THE ROOKERY, GATESHEATH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tattenhall and District
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 48531 58762
Details
SJ 45 NE TATTENHALL C.P. GATESHEATH LANE (West Side)
5/101 The Rookery.
GV II
Formerly large house, now old peoples' home: dated 1909 on rainheads for Frederick Wignall of Tate and Lyle. Timber-framed on a stone plinth with rusticated brick lower storeys to the rear. Stone-slate roof stone ridge and a massive ashlar lateral stack with Tudor-style brick stacks. Elizabethan style south front has large 2-storey gable. Coved jetties at 1st and 2nd floor. Chevron decoration below, roundels above and cross-motifs in gable with ornate pierced bargeboards. 5-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows. Similar gable on west front and 2-storey porch on east front; extensive service range to north. Interior: Hall has oak stair with shaped flat balusters and square newels. Main room to left in ornate Elizabethan style with inglenook fireplace, panelled plastered ceiling and frieze. Dining room has Baroque ceiling with Tate and Lyle Liver Birds and an ornate early C18-style fireplace. Replaces and may include small portions of an Elizabethan original; a meticulous evocation of Cheshire vernacular.
Listing NGR: SJ4853158762
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405175
- 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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