Building record 5651 - 1 & 2 Manor Villas, The Village, Burton

1 & 2 Manor Villas
LL67 (Previously LL BN/1)

Address: The Village, Burton
Architect: Not known
Date: C17

Description

A pair of cottages adjoining “The Croft”, which is of earlier date than Manor Villas.

A much altered block of C17 cottages, shallow pitch slate roof above limewashed brown brick, above roughly coursed sandstone to ground floor.

Each has one modern wood hinged casement window with glazing bars; rectangular red brick chimney stack between Villas.

Semi-dormers to first floor with plain tile sills below windows on brick on edge corbled brackets. Ashlar smooth dressed stone string course at first floor level.

Distinctive curved “Queen Anne” canopies above doors on plain brackets.

Condition
Good.

Current Use
In use as 2 dwellings.

Updated February 2007 (1)

<1> Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council, 2007, Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council Local List of Historic Buildings, LL67 (Index). SCH5437.