Eaton Boat and Attached Storeshed and Domestic Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. House.

Eaton Boat and Attached Storeshed and Domestic Offices

WRENN ID
high-courtyard-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 November 1983
Type
House
Address
Eaton Boat and Attached Storeshed and Domestic Offices, Eccleston Approach, Eaton and Eccleston
OS grid reference
SJ 418 611
Coordinates
53.14395, -2.87059
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Eaton Boat, built around 1880 by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster, is a house featuring squared rubble sandstone walls and half-timbered gables, topped with patterned red and blue tiled roofs. It has four shaped red brick chimneys and one plain chimney. The ground floor showcases stone mullioned windows, some of which are under labels, while the first floor has timber windows with cast iron opening lights. The leaded glazing has been removed. There is a boarded door located in a recessed porch, and the doorway at the north-east corner of the house is blocked. Inside, there are some four-panel doors with moulded stiles and rails, and an 'L' shaped open staircase in the large hall, which features shaped square newels and flat balusters that exhibit a restrained art nouveau style. To the west, there is a common brick single-storey outbuilding with a tiled roof, which has stone surrounds and mullions on its windows.

Local climate

Eaton Boat and Attached Storeshed and Domestic Offices receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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