Walmoor House
WALMOOR HOUSE, DEE BANKS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1375760
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Walmoor House
- Statutory Address:
- WALMOOR HOUSE, DEE BANKS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1375760
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Walmoor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALMOOR HOUSE, DEE BANKS
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:
- WALMOOR HOUSE, DEE BANKS
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:
- SJ4205365917
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ46NW DEE BANKS
1932-1/2/59 (West side)
10/01/72 Walmoor House
(Formerly Listed as:
DEE BANKS
Walmoor Hill)
II*
House, later girls school, then County Fire Service
headquarters. 1896. By John Douglas for himself. Snecked red
sandstone with tooled surfaces; grey-green slate roof.
T-shaped, in Elizabethan manner, main wing crowning steep
Dee-side slope.
EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys. The east, entrance front is
composed as a squat 3-storey tower, left, with corbelled
octagonal stair-turret against 2-storey projecting porch with
oriel above basket-arch of entrance; a 2-storey range between
porch and incomplete servants' wing, right; crenellated tower
at junction of wings; stone-mullioned leaded windows;
parapets, some crenellated; hipped roofs. Stringcourses,
sparingly used. The north face of the servants' wing is simply
expressed.
The west face to the Dee, set on a precipitous bank, has
canted bay windows to end of north wing of basement and 3
storeys; octagonal tower rising to 4 storeys at junction of
wings; 3-window range of 2 storeys; 3 storey south bay with
large canted projection to outer corner holding large
mullioned and transomed windows to ground and first floors and
small second-floor windows.
INTERIOR retains many features including the principal
reception room, now conference room, the stair and notably the
oratory in the chamber above the main entrance.
The plan is foreshadowed on a smaller scale by the former
rectory of St Thomas's Church, Parkgate Road (qv) on a similar
westward-facing valley-brow site, 1880; his unexecuted ideal
design for such a site, larger than Walmoor and a schloss, was
published in British Architect, 68, 1907.
(Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 7-9; 189;
RCHME: Historic Building Report - Walmoor Hill, Dee Banks,
Chester: Swindon: 1997-).
Listing NGR: SJ4205365917
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469739
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013), 7-9, 189
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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