Description

SJ 4162 ECCLESTON C.P. PADDOCK ROAD-WEST SIDE
AND WITH ACCESS FROM
HILL ROAD

7/131 Gatehouse and former
Estate Office at
Eccleston Paddocks

GV II

Gatehouse (2 storey) and attached L shaped office (1 storey), north,
1883, by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed
red brick walls with blue diapering. Hipped red tile roofs: square
spire and conical-roofed stair turret to gatehouse; swept eaves, lead
finials; weathercock; 2 shaped brick chimneys. Casements (some
leaded, others cast iron with small panes) in stone mullioned and
transomed openings. Pointed carriage archway with half-dormer over,
east (to garden); pointed doorway to office from garden with 24 panel
oak door; Tudor arched doorway from courtyard (west) with boarded
door; ornate wrought iron hinges and handles.
Interior: Not inspected.

The Gatehouse and-former Estate Office are an integral part of
Douglas's design for Eccleston Paddocks (q.v.) as illustrated in The
Building News V.45, 1883 (Pevsner and Hubbard).

Listing NGR: SJ4115062401

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26431566

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)