The Towers
THE TOWERS, CHESTER HIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387658
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Towers
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOWERS, CHESTER HIGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387658
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Towers
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TOWERS, CHESTER HIGH 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:
- THE TOWERS, CHESTER HIGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Neston
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3071278003
Details
SJ37NW
794-1/2/35
NESTON
CHESTER HIGH ROAD, Hinderton
(East side)
The Towers
II
House. 1890. Built by William Pritchard. Rock-faced red
sandstone with ashlar dressings; slate roof with stone
copings, red tile cresting and gable end stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey, 4-bay front; left of centre bay has
cross-gabled attic, right of centre bay 3 storeys. At right of
centre, flight of steps leads to projecting porch with angle
buttresses, corner tourelle surmounted by heraldic lions,
3-light window to front and half-glazed 4-panel door to right
return. Above is a canted oriel window with a single light to
each face at first floor level: second storey rises above roof
level as a quasi tower with 1-light windows and crow-stepped
crenellated parapet.
At left of centre is a single-storey canted bay window on
ground floor with 3-light mullioned window; similar window on
first floor is transomed; attic window is of 2 lights. At left
end is a 2-storey flat-roofed square bay window with dentilled
eaves cornice and 5-light mullioned windows with leaded
glazing on both floors. Right end bay has a single-storey
square bay based on paired cross windows. On first floor is a
4-light mullioned and transomed window. There is an eaves
corbel table over the third and fourth bays and the single
storey windows have weathered copings with shallow
crenellations.
INTERIOR: panelled entrance hall. Panelled ceiling in right
end room; dentilled cornices in Hall and Drawing Rooms. Stone
mantel in Drawing Room, 5-panel doors, staircase with twin
twist newels, bullnosed step, dado and spandrel panelling.
Listing NGR: SJ 30712 78003
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475644
- 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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