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Latitude: 53.1919 / 53°11'30"N
Longitude: -2.8767 / 2°52'36"W
OS Eastings: 341519
OS Northings: 366445
OS Grid: SJ415664
Mapcode National: GBR 7B.2XC4
Mapcode Global: WH88F.S1BC
Plus Code: 9C5V54RF+P8
Entry Name: Old Government House
Listing Date: 10 January 1972
Last Amended: 23 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375763
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469742
ID on this website: 101375763
Location: Boughton, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH3
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Electoral Ward/Division: Boughton
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chester
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Chester St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: House Neoclassical architecture
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 DEE HILLS PARK
1932-1/6/65 Old Government House
10/01/72
(Formerly Listed as:
DEE HILLS PARK
Government House)
GV II
Country house, now office building. 1814. By Thomas Harrison,
altered. Stucco; grey slate roof.
2 storeys with 3-bay garden front to river, south. Recessed
sashes, most with glazing bars removed. The south front has a
bowed central bay with a verandah of 4 Roman Doric columns
plus square pilaster against wall at each end; French window
to verandah; a sash in each wing. First-floor balcony above
verandah has simple wrought-iron railing and a French window;
a sash in each wing; painted stone cornice and one-course
parapet.
The entrance front, left, has Roman Doric porch with paired
columns and pilasters; entablature with triglyphs. The second
bay from the left is bowed. Some 12-pane sashes and 9-pane
sashes. A large extension, probably 1930s, right, behind which
the right side of the original building has a porch in a
corner, with one Roman Doric column.
INTERIOR: has stair, probably replaced, of one main flight
with square shaped lower newel, open string with brackets,
turned balusters and swept rail. Some plaster cornices, but
much detail has been removed.
Listing NGR: SJ4151966444
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