Building record 5675 - Mickwell Brow, House & Botanic Gardens (Ness Gardens), Ness

Mickwell Brow – House and Botanic Gardens
LL32 (Previously LL NS/2)

Address: Neston Road, Ness
Architect: Arthur Kilpin Bulley (Liverpool Cotton Broker)
Date: 1898

Description

House originally called “Mickwell Brow”.

A substantial red brick (“Ruabon” Red) villa beneath a pitched red clay tile roof with decorated crenolated ridge tiles.

Dutch style parapeted bay to rear with shaped terracotta tiles to parapet and decorative diamond device to brickwork.

Conventional pitched gables elsewhere. Windows white painted hinged casements with moulded string course acting as sill to first floor.

Flat arch brick lintels to window heads.

Condition
Good

Current use
In use as Ness Botanic Gardens.

Updated January 2007 (1)

<1> Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council, 2007, Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council Local List of Historic Buildings, LL32 (Index). SCH5437.