Former Estate Office And 3 Sections Of Attached Walls Adjoining Loton Park To South East

The former estate office, built in 1843 and likely designed by Thomas Jones of Chester, stands with three attached walls adjoining Loton Park to the south-east. Constructed of red brick with red sandstone ashlar dressings, it has a plain tile roof and is built in a Tudor Gothic style. The building is arranged in an L-shape and comprises a single storey with an attic. It features a chamfered plinth, parapeted gables with chamfered stone coping, moulded kneelers, and obelisk finials at the feet and apexes. A brick ridge stack rises from the roof, incorporating three octagonal shafts.

The south-west (entrance) front has two gables and two windows, featuring chamfered stone mullioned windows with lozenge-pattern cast-iron casements and returned hoodmoulds – a two-light window to the attic and a three-light window to the ground floor. A central boarded door sits beneath a returned hoodmould. The north-west entrance front presents three windows with a large central gabled dormer flanked by smaller gabled semi-dormers.

A short section of wall adjoins the entrance front on the right, dated 1844. This wall has a high chamfered plinth, stone coping, and a central gabled break displaying a date-shield within the tympanum. A large chamfered Tudor arch provides access through nail-studded boarded doors.

A section of forecourt wall, adjoining the estate office to the south-west, is constructed of red sandstone ashlar on a coursed rubble base, with a chamfered plinth and coping. It follows an L-shape and includes a ramped gate pier with trefoil-headed panelled sides and a gabled top, alongside a small gateway. A further short section of garden wall links the estate office to Loton Park to the north-west, dating to circa 1873. This wall, built of red brick with red sandstone ashlar dressings, has a chamfered plinth and coping, a globe finial at the corner, a tall arch where it meets Loton Park, and a segmental-headed boarded door with strap hinges and chamfered reveals. The interior of the former estate office was not inspected. Thomas Jones had previously undertaken remodelling work and extensions to Loton Park around 1830 and again around 1838. The estate office forms one side of the forecourt to the house, opposite the stable block.