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

Former Schoolmasters House with Storeshed and Domestic Offices Attached

WRENN ID
inner-dormer-dust
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
Former Schoolmasters House with Storeshed and Domestic Offices Attached, Eaton Road, Eaton and Eccleston
OS grid reference
SJ 411 626
Coordinates
53.15737, -2.88204
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Former Schoolmaster's House, built in 1878 by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster, is attached to St Mary's Church of England School. This house is designed in an asymmetrical, late Tudor style and is primarily constructed of sandstone, featuring an oak-framed upper storey on the projecting front gable and tile hanging between the upper and lower red tile roofs. It has two shaped sandstone and brown brick chimneys. The windows in the stone walls have shaped mullions and arched lights, with an oak mullioned window in the front bedroom that has a pentice roof above it. The windows also feature patterned leaded glazing set in iron casements. The entrance includes a 9-panel shaped door with moulded muntins, stiles, and rails, along with ornate wrought iron hinges and a handle. There is incised text in the beam of the left gable. The house is situated on a terrace with a retaining wall alongside St Mary's C of E School.

Inside, there is a painted dogleg newel staircase with moulded flat balusters, and the doors are 6-panel with moulded muntins, stiles, and rails. The property includes a stone-walled back yard with a one-storey outbuilding made of stone and brick.

Local climate

Former Schoolmasters House with Storeshed and Domestic Offices Attached receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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