Building record 5655 - Whitby Hall, Stanney Lane, Ellesmere Port

Whitby Hall
LL50 (Previously LL EP/12)

Address: Stanney Lane, Ellesmere Port
Architect: Possibly a pupil of Pugin, for John Grace, landowner
Date: 1860

Description

A mid-Victorian home in the English Gothic style in the manner of AWN Pugin. Pitched roofs of red clay plain tiles, substantive overhang to gable ends with decorative barge boards and ridge piece.

Pointed rectilinear style windows with light coloured brick surrounds in the manner of stone quoins.

Main walls local red common brick.

Some sandstone detailing to entrance porch and sills, some of which may be reclaimed from the former Whitby Old Hall.

Three small avenues of 28 lime planted in the grounds to celebrate the George V Coronation in 1937.


Condition

Fair (weatherproof). May need treatment for rot.

Current Use

Updated November 2006

<1> Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council, 2007, Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council Local List of Historic Buildings, LL50 (Index). SCH5437.