Wolverley
WOLVERLEY, CLIFF ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287609
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Wolverley
- Statutory Address:
- WOLVERLEY, CLIFF ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-10-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/05371/10
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287609
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Wolverley
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOLVERLEY, CLIFF 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:
- WOLVERLEY, CLIFF ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Acton Bridge
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 59412 75641
Details
ACTON BRIDGE C.P. CLIFF ROAD SJ 57 NE (West Side) 1/6 Wolverley 3/1/1967
- II
House: early C17 core, extended and remodelled late C18 with minor C19 and C20 additions. Flemish bond orange and red brick with some yellow headers. Graduated Welsh slate roof with a stone ridge and coping. 1 gable and lateral brick chimneys. Long rectangular plan, perhaps developing from C17 hall and crosswing. 2-storey, 6-bay south front. Right hand 3 bays present a symmetrical facade with channelled stone heads and moulded composite stone sills to C20 steel casements with glazing bars. Central bay has recent Tuscan porch and doorcase to 6-panelled door. 3 bays to left are set back and have 2 and 3-light steel casements under segmental brick heads and a central 6-panelled door in a heavy wooden case. Sun lounge added to the left. Interior: room to left of entrance reveals timber small framing which also survives inside the brick skin, in parts. Several rooms have ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with jewelled stops of this period. The majority of the fittings are late C18. Good oak well staircase with turned balusters, moulded and ramped handrail with a spiral end. Cut brackets on open string. Fielded panelling in the well. 4 and 6- fielded panelled doors in doorcases with panelled soffits. Fragments of C17 painted glass in the stairwell window.
Listing NGR: SJ5941275641
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401943
- 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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