Listed Building: HINDERTON HALL (1387654)

NESTON SJ37NW CHESTER HIGH ROAD, Hinderton 794-1/2/37 (East side) 10/08/71 Hinderton Hall (Formerly Listed as: HINDERTON, Parkgate Hinderton Hall) GV II Country house, now offices. Dated 1856. By Alfred Waterhouse. Rock-faced coursed red sandstone with projecting plinth, ashlar flush quoins and dressings; steeply pitched green slate roof including fishscale slates, stone copings and stacks, and gable finials. EXTERIOR: entrance front of 2 storeys with attics; 5-bay front between gabled crosswings, right one set back, left one projecting; 3-storey entrance bay with steeply pitched hipped roof. Entrance bay has paired oak boarded doors on strap hinges and 2-centred arched overlight beneath steeply pitched porch hood on wooden brackets. Windows mainly mullioned, in pairs, some on first floor beneath gabled half dormers. Garden front of 3-storey gabled bay in centre flanked by 2-storey 3-bay ranges, range to right set back and right end bay gabled. At left end is a mullioned and transomed 5-light canted bay window on ground floor; on first floor, a window of 3 stepped lights in 2-centred arched opening beneath tall crossgable. Centre and left of centre bays have 4-light mullioned and transomed windows. Otherwise, windows on ground floor are of 4 mullioned lights, on first floor of 2- or 3-lights, of 2 lights on second floor of centre bay. Right return: has a canted half dormer with dated tablet recessed in the gable head. INTERIOR: entrance hall has stone fireplace with Tudor arched opening, crenellated cresting, fluted side piers, vine motif surround and dagger and multi-foil frieze: 6-panel doors of 3 long panels over 3 short panels. Drawing Room has marble mantel on consoles and fern pilasters; panelled walls with niches flanking window opening; ceiling divided into three coffers by moulded plaster beams and patterned ribs. Open well staircase with carved newels and handrails and metal balustrade. There are galleries to three sides. Listing NGR: SJ3054078418