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Christleton House

A Grade II Listed Building in Christleton, Cheshire West and Chester

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1853 / 53°11'7"N

Longitude: -2.8393 / 2°50'21"W

OS Eastings: 344011

OS Northings: 365688

OS Grid: SJ440656

Mapcode National: GBR 7D.36V0

Mapcode Global: WH88G.C66D

Plus Code: 9C5V55P6+47

Entry Name: Christleton House

Listing Date: 4 June 1952

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1130669

English Heritage Legacy ID: 55469

ID on this website: 101130669

Location: Christleton, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH3

County: Cheshire West and Chester

Civil Parish: Christleton

Built-Up Area: Waverton

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Christleton St James

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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Description


SJ 46 NW CHRISTLETON C.P. PEPPER STREET (North Side)

3/23 Christleton House

4/6/1952

GV II

House: dated 1760 on rainhead but probably the fabric and all details early-mid C19. Flemish bond orange brick with yellow headers, stone dressings. Hipped Welsh slate roof and 2 brick chimneys. Hipped Welsh slate roof and 2 brick chimneys. Square in plan. 2-storey symmetrical 3-bay east front. Stone plinth, moulded stone cornice and a stone blocking course. End bays have 20-pane sashes, the uppermost panes with cusped pointed tracery. These have flat-wedged stone heads with scalloped soffits. Central bay has an added detached wooden porch on fluted piers, with a triglyph frieze and a coffered ceiling. Doorcase with fluted columns and twisted capitals. Rectangular fanlight with intersecting tracery. Similar treatment to windows on south and north fronts where 2 are false. Interior: Double-pile plan. 6 recessed-panelled softwood doors in panelled reveals throughout and with moulded architraves with lions heads in the corners. Archway over passage has moulded pilasters and Greek key design in the archivolt, continued in the ceiling cornice. Gothic style staircase with cusped headed iron panel balusters and mahogany handrail. Room to left has cornice and border of vines, and a central roundel with a border of roses. Fireplace has clumsy shouldered architrave. Room to right has a mantel on carved consoles. Similar fittings upstairs.

Listing NGR: SJ4401165688

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