Farm Buildings Around Yard Immediately North West Of Aldford Hall

SJ 45 NW ALDFORD C.P. CHESTER ROAD (West side) 6/9 Farm buildings around Yard immediately north west of Aldford Hall.

GV II

Farm buildings, 1883, by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed brick with red tile roofs. A drifthouse under an oak-framed cross-gabled roof, with date carved on beam, is the central feature of the east range, a pedimented loading-door gable of the west range, opposite, and a fleche ventilator and raked-roofed dormer of the north range. The east and west ranges are of one storey with hay lofts in the roofs, the north ange of l½ storeys with ornate patterns of ventilators in the loft wall. A cartshed opening to the outer side of the east range has an open front, the roof supported on 3 bracketed oak posts. Small pane iron windows. The fronts to the yard of the 3 ranges and the outer face of the east range (all seen in relation to Aldford Hall (q.v.) which they complement in massing, materials and detailing) are little altered.

Listing NGR: SJ4177658178