Thornton Lodge
THORNTON LODGE, 1 AND 2, HEATH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330392
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Thornton Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- THORNTON LODGE, 1 AND 2, HEATH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330392
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Thornton Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNTON LODGE, 1 AND 2, HEATH 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:
- THORNTON LODGE, 1 AND 2, HEATH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3619577640
Details
SJ 37 NE
2/24
ELLESMERE PORT & NESTON
HEATH LANE
Nos 1 & 2 Thornton Lodge
II
1840s Gothick house. White coursed stucco walls. Steep purple slate roofs
with shaped courses. 4 chimneys. Irregular 2-storey gabled block with heavy
carved openwork bargeboards. Yellow sandstone mullioned windows, some with
deep label moulds. Square-headed window with ogee-headed lights. Crenellated
2-storey stone bay. Tall yellow sandstone mullioned and transomed staircase
window with original diamond leaded glazing. Garden terraces have low stone
trefoil openwork walls. INTERIOR OF NO 1: Newel dogleg staircase with shaped
oak handrails and sculpted closed string. Double balusters and double ornate
newels. Openwork glazed oak screen to hall. 4 panel internal doors with
raised fielded and bolection moulded panels. Oak Gothic-headed front entrance
door, framed, battened and cross-braced. Rectangular oak panelling and good
plaster cornice to dining room. Fine mahogany panelling to drawing room.
INTERIOR OF NO 2: Inserted (2) oak panelling in dining room and good original
parlour with arched recesses and moulded plasterwork.
Listing NGR: SJ 36195 77640
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56285
- 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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