Description

SJ37NW
794-1/2/35

NESTON
CHESTER HIGH ROAD, Hinderton
(East side)

The Towers

II

House. 1890. Built by William Pritchard. Rock-faced red
sandstone with ashlar dressings; slate roof with stone
copings, red tile cresting and gable end stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey, 4-bay front; left of centre bay has
cross-gabled attic, right of centre bay 3 storeys. At right of
centre, flight of steps leads to projecting porch with angle
buttresses, corner tourelle surmounted by heraldic lions,
3-light window to front and half-glazed 4-panel door to right
return. Above is a canted oriel window with a single light to
each face at first floor level: second storey rises above roof
level as a quasi tower with 1-light windows and crow-stepped
crenellated parapet.
At left of centre is a single-storey canted bay window on
ground floor with 3-light mullioned window; similar window on
first floor is transomed; attic window is of 2 lights. At left
end is a 2-storey flat-roofed square bay window with dentilled
eaves cornice and 5-light mullioned windows with leaded
glazing on both floors. Right end bay has a single-storey
square bay based on paired cross windows. On first floor is a
4-light mullioned and transomed window. There is an eaves
corbel table over the third and fourth bays and the single
storey windows have weathered copings with shallow
crenellations.
INTERIOR: panelled entrance hall. Panelled ceiling in right
end room; dentilled cornices in Hall and Drawing Rooms. Stone
mantel in Drawing Room, 5-panel doors, staircase with twin
twist newels, bullnosed step, dado and spandrel panelling.

Listing NGR: SJ 30712 78003

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667297

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House