Locally Listed Building: Ashfield Hall Farm and Stables, Cottage and Walled Garden, Neston (LL7)

Ashfield Hall Farm, Stables, Cottage and Walled Garden LL7 (Previously LL NN/2 ) Address: Chester High Road, Neston Architect: Joseph Hayes Lyon Esq for John Winder Lyon Winder Esq of Vaynor Park Montgomeryshire Date: 1821 Description The Hall An Italianate structure with Ionic portice built of Ashlar stone. Only the ground floor storey with some fine carved door surrounds survive. Condition Partly demolished. Current Use In use as storage Stable Block 2 storey coach house, stable and grooms quarters above. Slated pitched roof with hipped gables and red ridge tiles. 2 curved four centre arched openings for coaches (now infilled). Walls grey render in brick. Stair to grooms quarters at rear. Style reminiscent of Thomas Telford’s canal architecture at Northgate Locks, Chester. Condition Poor Current Use Cottage Formerly two cottages, now modernised into one dwelling. Hipped slate roof over 2 storey brick. Deep rendered cornice under eaves. Condition Good, although altered. Current Use In use as dwelling. Walled Garden Wall of original Georgian walled garden remains, approx 4 metres high, red Cheshire brick. Condition Fair to good. Current use Now given over to domestic garden with fowl run. Reference: Mansions of County Palatine of Chester, Twycross E, 1850. REF: DHL/30/DD Chester 602574 (Chester Records Office) Updated January 2007