Salters Well House

Salters Well House is a house dated 1783, located in Tarporley. It is built of Flemish bond brick with stone dressings and has a slate roof. The house has three storeys and features a symmetrical entrance front with three bays. There is a rendered plinth and a fluted modillion cornice at the top of the wall. The central ground floor doorway is approached by a flight of six steps with moulded treads, flanked by fluted pilasters that have cables on their lower bodies. Above the doorway is an open pediment containing a fanlight. The door itself has six raised and fielded panels and a knocker shaped like a fist and laurel wreath.

On either side of the entrance are tripartite windows, each with a central sash window of four panes and lateral lights of one by two panes. The first and second floors also have similar lateral windows, though the second-floor windows are shorter. All these windows feature wedge lintels designed to look like chamfered rustication with central fluted keystones. The first and second floors also have arched central windows, which have simulated chamfering on the arched lintels and ogee mouldings on the keystones.

On the right-hand gable end, there is a lead down-pipe with a dated bracket and a moulded rainwater head bearing the initials S B. To the right of this, there are tripartite French windows at ground floor level, a sash window with four by four panes on the first floor, and another sash window with three by two panes on the second floor. The attic features a horizontally sliding sash window with two lights. All these windows have stone sills and lintels similar to those on the entrance front.

At the rear, there is a two-storey late 19th-century extension that spans the entire width of the back. Above this extension are two gabled wings, each with a horizontally sliding sash window and cambered heads.

Inside, the layout follows a late 18th-century plan with four rooms on each floor, centered around a corridor. The oak staircase features two straight flights with half-landings, ramped handrails with a wreathed curtail, an open string with moulded brackets, and stick balusters. The back stairs have square newels and turned balusters on the lower flights. The drawing room includes pine panelling below a moulded dado, while the dining room features a panelled marble fireplace.