Sun Houses
SUN HOUSES, HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330202
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Sun Houses
- Statutory Address:
- SUN HOUSES, HILL ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04051/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330202
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Sun Houses
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUN HOUSES, HILL 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:
- SUN HOUSES, HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eaton and Eccleston
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 41013 62519
Details
SJ 4162 ECCLESTON C.P. HILL ROAD (North side)
7/121 Sun Houses
GV II
Asymmetric pair of It storey estate cottages 1882 by John Douglas. Stone dressed brown brick lower storey: upper storey partly pebbledashed, partly tile hung. Red roofs of shaped tiles with gables and hips. 2 shaped brick chimneys. 2 end and 2 front gables carry ornate raised pargetting depicting suns, allegorical figures, creatures, birds and floral patterns (with some implied eroticism). Upper storey jettied to front (E). Open recessed porch with timber balustrade to left cottage. Mullioned windows, stone to lower, oak to upper storey, with leaded glazing in iron frames. 7 panel door to right, 4 panel to left cottage. Interior: Panelled doors with well-executed mouldings to rails, stiles and muntins and individually designed architraves. A richly detailed pair of cottages, almost Edwardian in expression (see Pevsner and Hubbard).
Listing NGR: SJ4101362519
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55317
- 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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