Thornton Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1985. House.
Thornton Lodge
- WRENN ID
- deep-tracery-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SJ 37 NE 2/24
ELLESMERE PORT & NESTON HEATH LANE
Nos 1 & 2 Thornton Lodge
II
1840s Gothick house. White coursed stucco walls. Steep purple slate roofs with shaped courses. 4 chimneys. Irregular 2-storey gabled block with heavy carved openwork bargeboards. Yellow sandstone mullioned windows, some with deep label moulds. Square-headed window with ogee-headed lights. Crenellated 2-storey stone bay. Tall yellow sandstone mullioned and transomed staircase window with original diamond leaded glazing. Garden terraces have low stone trefoil openwork walls. INTERIOR OF NO 1: Newel dogleg staircase with shaped oak handrails and sculpted closed string. Double balusters and double ornate newels. Openwork glazed oak screen to hall. 4 panel internal doors with raised fielded and bolection moulded panels. Oak Gothic-headed front entrance door, framed, battened and cross-braced. Rectangular oak panelling and good plaster cornice to dining room. Fine mahogany panelling to drawing room. INTERIOR OF NO 2: Inserted (2) oak panelling in dining room and good original parlour with arched recesses and moulded plasterwork.
Listing NGR: SJ 36195 77640
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