7, 8 AND 9, THE SQUARE
7, 8 AND 9, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335917
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 7, 8 AND 9, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 7, 8 AND 9, THE SQUARE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335917
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 7, 8 AND 9, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7, 8 AND 9, THE SQUARE
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:
- 7, 8 AND 9, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ince
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4499776453
Details
SJ 4476 & 4576
8/57 & 9/57
21.2.83
ELLESMERE PORT & NESTON
THE SQUARE
Nos 7, 8 & 9
II
GV
Early C19. Late Georgian terrace of 3 cottages originally with symmetrical
4-window front. Central (2-window) cottage altered late C19 to form village
shop and post office. Brown brick; Flemish bond to front. Graded grey Welsh
slate roof; flush verges to sides and rear, flush softwood fascia and barge-
boards to central gable and wings at front. 2 chimneys. Blocked circular
opening in central gable. No 8 retains Georgian sashes front and side. No 9
retains one 12-pane Georgian sash (ground floor) and has small, square 5-light
bay formerly used as shop window. Doors replaced. Upper windows to No 9 and
all windows to No 10 replaced with modern casements in altered openings.
Modern rear extension to No 10. These cottages form part of the late Georgian
formal layout around The Square which marks Edmund Yates's attempt to develop
Ince as a ferry head on the Mersey estuary for passengers and goods to
Liverpool. They are included for group value.
Listing NGR: SJ 44997 76453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56318
- 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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