Chestnut Cottages And Estate Workshops

Chestnut Cottages and estate workshops are estate workers' houses and workshops, which now include a cafeteria. They were built in 1904 by C. H. Reilly of Liverpool for the 2nd Lord Newton. The buildings are constructed of washed, pebble-dashed red brick with a red tile roof and feature eight plastered chimneys. They are designed in a Vernacular Revival style and have an L-shaped plan.

The east range consists of one and two-storey sections with a symmetrical 13-bay front arranged as (a, b, a, c, a, b, a). The end bays project as two-storey sections under half-hipped, mansard roofs, featuring 5-light casements with glazing bars below and 3-light casements above. The central door is flanked by similar elements and has a dormer and mansard roof above. The body of this range is one storey high with a steeply pitched roof and 3-light casements.

The north range has three units that step down the hill. To the left is a three-bay house in a mansard-roofed end pavilion, complete with 3-light dormers. Next is a five-bay former electricity generating shed, which has 3-light wooden casements with glazing bars (the center light is dropped) and single-light dormers under hipped gables in the pitched roof. To the right is a four-bay former boiler house and laundry, featuring buttresses between the bays and similar dormers in the pitched roof. Connecting to the boiler house is a flue that leads to an English bond, red-brick square chimney topped with a blind, square sandstone arcade on brackets, just below a moulded cornice.