Old Church Way The Cottage

SJ 4162 ECCLESTON C.P. EATON ROAD (East side)

7/115 Old Church Way (The Cottage)

GV II

House, c.1800, pebbledashed with hipped grey slate roof. Gothick symmetrical 2 storey 3 bay entrance front with projecting castellated porch. Corners between east (garden front), north and south faces chamfered. Tudor-arched window openings: some original iron Gothick casements, others (in original sub-frames) replicas executed in lead. Replacement French windows on south, in original opening with label. Recent 6-panel west door in open lattice porch with bellcast roof in keeping. 2 symmetrically placed rectangular pebbledashed chimneys. Simple brick outbuilding with lean-to slate roof and 1 Gothick casement linked to house by sandstone wall around stone-paved yard. Interior: Altered, with replacement staircase. 5-panel doors, with cases and architraves to main ground floor rooms, and 3-panel narrower doors survive. Moulded plaster cornices in principal (north-east and south-east) rooms. Iron grate in Tudor-arched surround (overmantel removed) in north-east room: Regency style fireplace (brought in from Bath) in south-east room.

Listing NGR: SJ4119562619