Halton Place: Estate outbuildings

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SD 85 SE 11/2

HALTON WEST Halton Place: Estate outbuildings

GV II

Former laundry, stables and carriage houses, now three cottages and stores. Late C18 and C20 alterations. Watershot masonry, stone dressings, slate roofs. Tripartite composition consisting of three two storey one bay pavilions with hipped roofs linked by two single storey four bay ranges of stabling and outbuildings.

Left-hand pavilion: former laundry, now cottage, has tripartite ground floor window and upper floor two-light window with recessed flat faced mullions; casements. To right in single storey range is cottage entrance with plain surround, plank door, three-light flat faced mullioned window with casements. Right-hand gable end ridge stack. Four entrances to stable range with seven- panel doors, two with upper two panels cut out. Shaped eaves modillions.

Central pavilion: carriage entrance with segmental arch; plank doors. Above is monkey's-head-crest of the Yorke family. Upper floor with eleven-pane fixed light. Single-storey range to right consists of outbuildings. Four entrances, one now blocked to form window; shaped eaves modillions. Right-hand carriage house now converted to form two cottages. Former carriage entrance blocked with two windows inserted. Two upper floor windows; casements. Left-hand gable end ridge stack. C19 extension to right two storeys, four bays contains two cottage entrances; C20 alterations.

Listing NGR: SD8504754815