Lodge To Greenbank

CHESTER CITY (EM)

SJ46SW EATON ROAD 1932-1/4/80 (East side) 10/01/72 Lodge to Greenbank

GV II

Lodge cottage spanning carriage drive. c1930. Probably by Sir Charles Reilly. For Peter Jones owner of the Woverhampton Corrugated Iron Company's works at Ellemere Port. Lined render; shallow-pitched grey slate roof. 2 storeys, symmetrical. Basket-arched carriage entrance with double gates of four fielded panels, top rail sweeping down towards centre. Simple plinth; panelled pilasters and arch to carriage entrance; a door in each return has 4 fielded panels and margin-paned overlight; a recessed sash in slightly-projecting wing to each side of archway with 8 central panes and 10 margin-panes; first-floor sillband with running motif of S-shaped scrolls; 2 first-floor sashes above archway and one on each wing, as those to ground floor; broken-pediment gable with boarded soffits; simple one-storey outer wings with blank sides. Detail to rear of lodge as to front; stone wall left of lodge runs forward to the road. INTERIOR not inspected. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Hubbard E: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1971-: 175).

Listing NGR: SJ4095164571