Listed Building: TEA HOUSE AT NORTH END OF DUTCH GARDEN (1330197)

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Grade II
Authority Department for Culture Media and Sport
Volume/Map/Item 34, 9, 89
Date assigned 02 November 1983
Date last amended

Description

SJ 4160 EATON C.P. EATON PARK GARDEN 9/89 Tea House at north end of Dutch Garden II Tea House, 1872, by John Douglas for 2nd Marquis and 1st Duke of Westminster. Sandstone plinth, oak frame with plaster panels, red shaped-tile roof. Cruciform with large verandah at front, with tearoom behind and left, and kitchen, right. A light-hearted building with battered red sandstone plinth, shaped posts and barleysugar pilasters to verandah and tearoom, pargetted frieze and hipped roof with widely swept eaves on shaped brackets. Small swept spire over front verandah capped in lead with raised floral mouldings and crowned by a small weathercock. Leaded glazing with patterned borders. Flight of 6 stone steps with curved dwarf wall, left and right, leads down from the Tea House to the restored Dutch Garden. Listing NGR: SJ4156561154

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Sources (1)

  • Digital Archive: English Heritage. 2005. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 55285. [Mapped features: #4848 55285; #10152 55285]

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SJ 4150 6039 (9m by 8m) (2 map features)
Map sheet SJ46SW
Civil Parish EATON, CHESTER, CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER

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Record last edited

Oct 30 2009 12:00PM