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Latitude: 53.3191 / 53°19'8"N
Longitude: -2.1437 / 2°8'37"W
OS Eastings: 390522
OS Northings: 380255
OS Grid: SJ905802
Mapcode National: GBR FZG1.PW
Mapcode Global: WHBB9.1TGV
Plus Code: 9C5V8V94+MG
Entry Name: The Shell Cottage and Attached Garden Wall, Wilderness Garden at Adlington Hall
Listing Date: 6 July 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1276270
English Heritage Legacy ID: 58185
ID on this website: 101276270
SJ 98 SW ADLINGTON C.P. MILL LANE
(South Side)
3/19 The Shell Cottage and
attached garden wall,
Wilderness garden at
Adlington Hall.
GV II
Shell cottage and attached garden wall: mid C18 for Charles Legh.
Flemish bond red brick with buff sandstone dressings. Stone-slate
roof and a hexagonal brick chimney. 1-storey, symmetrical 3-bay
front, under a gable. Raised brick quoining and dentilations under
brick-coped gable with stone finials. End bays have 12-pane sashes
with raised brick quoining to jambs. Flat gauged and rubbed brick
head with stone keystone. Large projecting doorcase in brick, but
simulating rustication, with a flat stone hood. Has a semi-circular
head to pair of ½ glazed oak doors. The hood supports an engaged
stone urn with the Legh Monogram and hung with garlands.
Interior: Trapezoidel room with 3 walls covered in shells, pebbles
and bands of coloured mirrors. Fluted neo-classical fireplace with
cast-iron grate.
From ceiling to kitchen garden is a stone coped brick wall with a
lancet headed opening with brick rustication and a projecting brick
hood.
Some traces suggest that the whole of the rear was covered by shells
at one time.
Listing NGR: SJ9052280255
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