Gatehouse and Former Estate Office at Eccleston Paddocks is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Gatehouse, office.
Gatehouse and Former Estate Office at Eccleston Paddocks
- WRENN ID
- shifting-niche-fen
- 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
- Gatehouse, office
- Address
- Gatehouse and Former Estate Office at Eccleston Paddocks, Paddock Road with Access from Hill Road, Eaton and Eccleston, CH4 9HP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 411 624
- Coordinates
- 53.15549, -2.88152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gatehouse and former Estate Office at Eccleston Paddocks is a two-storey gatehouse and an attached one-storey office, built in 1883 by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster. The structure features stone-dressed red brick walls with blue diapering and hipped red tile roofs. The gatehouse includes a square spire and a conical-roofed stair turret, along with swept eaves, lead finials, a weathercock, and two shaped brick chimneys. The windows are casements, some leaded and others made of cast iron with small panes, set in stone mullioned and transomed openings.
The east side has a pointed carriage archway with a half-dormer above, leading to the garden, while there is a pointed doorway to the office from the garden featuring a 24-panel oak door. Additionally, there is a Tudor arched doorway from the courtyard on the west side with a boarded door, adorned with ornate wrought iron hinges and handles. The interior has not been inspected.
This gatehouse and former estate office are an essential part of Douglas's design for Eccleston Paddocks, as illustrated in The Building News, Volume 45, in 1883.
Local climate
Gatehouse and Former Estate Office at Eccleston Paddocks 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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