Description

ELLESMERE PORT & NESTON THE SQUARE SJ 4576 9/53 1, 2 and 3 with Attached Front Garden Walls 21.2.83 GV II Early Cl9. Late Georgian symmetrical 5-bay 2-storey terrace. Built as hotel for Mersey ferry passengers, converted to house flanked by 2 slightly recessed cottages. Brown brick. Flemish bond front. Graded grey Welsh slate hipped roof with central simplified pediment gable to front. Simple eaves. Sym- metrical brick chimneys. Sandstone string-course at 1st floor level painted. Flat rubbed-brick arches to windows and cottage doorways. Semi-circular brick arch with moulded stone lining to house doorway. Blocked arched window opening in pediment. 6-panel front door to house survives behind hardboard; semi- circular decorative fanlight over, 4 panel replacement doors to cottages with plain rectangular fanlights over. All front windows to house and cottages 16 pane double-hung Georgian sashes, recessed. INTERIOR: House retains quasi- classical hardwood arch (painted) between hall and stairwell, simple dog-leg Georgian stair with wrought square banisters and 6-panel doors to all main rooms. Cottage interiors not inspected. Rubble sandstone garden walls with flush copings.

Listing NGR: SJ4504176461

External Links

• Wikidata Q26620442

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