The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-pinnacle-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1983
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 4162 ECCLESTON C.P. EATON ROAD (East side)
7/116 The Old Rectory
II
Large parsonage house, 1896, by T M Lockwood & Sons for 1st Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed red brick walls with blue diapers, on stone plinth. Grey slate roof, hipped to right (west) but with sandstone-coped gables, left, and to garden, south, with ball finials on ridge-stones and kneelers. Central stone-banded brick chimney with moulded stone cap. 2 storeys and attics, 3 bays. Stone mullioned and transomed windows with bronze casements: leaded glazing removed except to attic windows. Ornate 9-panel oak double doors in simplified Doric case of yellow sandstone (probably from Manley quarry). A rich interior. Open-well newel staircase with heavy turned balusters; finely made 6 panel doors. The dining room contains an ornate chimney piece, probably by Lockwood, oak wainscotting and panelled ceiling of oak and plaster. The exterior, for Eaton Estate buildings, is severe in expression.
Listing NGR: SJ4123162788
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