Towngate House and Attached Garden Wall
TOWNGATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, BACK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335867
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Towngate House and Attached Garden Wall
- Statutory Address:
- TOWNGATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, BACK LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335867
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Towngate House and Attached Garden Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWNGATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, BACK 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:
- TOWNGATE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, BACK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ6184979965
Details
SJ 67 NW
5/108
8/1/70
WHITLEY C.P.
BACK LANE
North Side,
Higher Whitley
Towngate House and attached Garden Wall
(formerly listed as Four Corners)
II
GV
House, 1743. Stone-dressed Flemish bond brown brick; graded grey
slate roof. 3 storeys; 2 windows. Painted stone plinth; rusticated
quoins; bands at 1st and 2nd floors. Door of 6 fielded panels - 2
horizontal; 3 vertical; 1 horizontal. Radial bar overlight with 2
concentric bars, under slightly cambered gauged brick arch. 12-pane
sashes to lower storey, recessed but with sash-boxes exposed; flush
12-pane sashes to middle storey; 9-pane flush sashes to upper storey
with 6 panes in lower sash and 3 in upper sash; projecting stone
cills; wedge lintels except to top storey. The cills of the lower
storey are cut into plinth. Flush brick gable chimneys. Datestone at
centre of 2nd storey inscribed C : S * : K : 1743 in round-arched
recessed panel on attached Tuscan columns. Garden wall to road of
coursed sandstone and brown brick, 2 metres high, attched to house.
Interior not inspected, but oak beams and 2-panel doors are visible.
Listing NGR: SJ 61849 79965
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57574
- 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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