The Shell Cottage And Attached Garden Wall, Wilderness Garden At Adlington Hall

SJ 98 SW ADLINGTON C.P. MILL LANE (South Side)

3/19 The Shell Cottage and attached garden wall, Wilderness garden at Adlington Hall.

GV II

Shell cottage and attached garden wall: mid C18 for Charles Legh. Flemish bond red brick with buff sandstone dressings. Stone-slate roof and a hexagonal brick chimney. 1-storey, symmetrical 3-bay front, under a gable. Raised brick quoining and dentilations under brick-coped gable with stone finials. End bays have 12-pane sashes with raised brick quoining to jambs. Flat gauged and rubbed brick head with stone keystone. Large projecting doorcase in brick, but simulating rustication, with a flat stone hood. Has a semi-circular head to pair of ½ glazed oak doors. The hood supports an engaged stone urn with the Legh Monogram and hung with garlands. Interior: Trapezoidel room with 3 walls covered in shells, pebbles and bands of coloured mirrors. Fluted neo-classical fireplace with cast-iron grate. From ceiling to kitchen garden is a stone coped brick wall with a lancet headed opening with brick rustication and a projecting brick hood. Some traces suggest that the whole of the rear was covered by shells at one time.

Listing NGR: SJ9052280255