The Shell Cottage and Attached Garden Wall, Wilderness Garden at Adlington Hall
THE SHELL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, WILDERNESS GARDEN AT ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276270
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Shell Cottage and Attached Garden Wall, Wilderness Garden at Adlington Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE SHELL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, WILDERNESS GARDEN AT ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276270
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Shell Cottage and Attached Garden Wall, Wilderness Garden at Adlington Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SHELL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, WILDERNESS GARDEN AT ADLINGTON HALL, MILL 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 SHELL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, WILDERNESS GARDEN AT ADLINGTON HALL, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Adlington
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 90522 80255
Details
SJ 98 SW ADLINGTON C.P. MILL LANE (South Side)
3/19 The Shell Cottage and attached garden wall, Wilderness garden at Adlington Hall.
GV II
Shell cottage and attached garden wall: mid C18 for Charles Legh. Flemish bond red brick with buff sandstone dressings. Stone-slate roof and a hexagonal brick chimney. 1-storey, symmetrical 3-bay front, under a gable. Raised brick quoining and dentilations under brick-coped gable with stone finials. End bays have 12-pane sashes with raised brick quoining to jambs. Flat gauged and rubbed brick head with stone keystone. Large projecting doorcase in brick, but simulating rustication, with a flat stone hood. Has a semi-circular head to pair of ½ glazed oak doors. The hood supports an engaged stone urn with the Legh Monogram and hung with garlands. Interior: Trapezoidel room with 3 walls covered in shells, pebbles and bands of coloured mirrors. Fluted neo-classical fireplace with cast-iron grate. From ceiling to kitchen garden is a stone coped brick wall with a lancet headed opening with brick rustication and a projecting brick hood. Some traces suggest that the whole of the rear was covered by shells at one time.
Listing NGR: SJ9052280255
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58185
- 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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