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Eccleston Hill

Coordinates: 53°09′17″N 2°53′04″W / 53.1547°N 2.8845°W / 53.1547; -2.8845
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Eccleston Hill
Eccleston Hill is located in Cheshire
Eccleston Hill
Location in Cheshire
LocationEccleston, Cheshire, England
Coordinates53°09′17″N 2°53′04″W / 53.1547°N 2.8845°W / 53.1547; -2.8845
OS grid referenceSJ 409 623
Built1881–82
Built for1st Duke of Westminster
Restored1892–94
ArchitectJohn Douglas
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated2 November 1983
Reference no.1330221

Eccleston Hill is a house in the village of Eccleston, Cheshire, England. The house, with its attached conservatory, wall, and service wing, is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[1]

History

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The house was designed by the Chester architect John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster.[1] It was built in 1881–82 as the residence for the Duke's secretary, Colonel David Scotland.[2] The house, and in particular the service quarters, were altered by Douglas & Fordham for Scotland's successor, the Honourable Arthur Lawley in 1892–94.[3]
Colonel W.N. Lloyd, (late Royal Horse Artillery) of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms was listed as living at Eccleston Hill on the 1911 UK census.

Architecture

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Eccleston Hill is "a large house, virtually a mansion".[2] The house has two storeys plus attics. It is built in red brick, with blue brick diapering and stone dressings. The roof is in red tiles; it is hipped with gables and dormers. Tall shaped chimney stacks rise from the roof. The entrance front faces north and includes an oak timber-framed porch. A wall for growing fruit trees extends to the east from the south east corner of the house at the end of which is a timber conservatory with an octagonal lantern. Extending from the northeast corner of the house to the north is a single-storey stable wing.[1] The gable over the entrance to the stable is also timber-framed.[4]

Although there have been alterations to the interior, Douglas' staircase and panelling to the hall remain "as an outstanding example of [his] domestic joinery".[4]

See also

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References

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Citations

  1. ^ a b c Historic England, "Eccleston Hill with attached conservatory, wall and stable wing (1330221)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 July 2013
  2. ^ a b Hubbard 1991, p. 68.
  3. ^ Hubbard 1991, p. 118.
  4. ^ a b Hubbard 1991, p. 119.

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