Shotwick House

Shotwick House
The entrance front of Shotwick Park
in about 1879
Location: Great Saughall, Cheshire, England
OS grid reference: SJ 358 702
Built: 1872
Built for: Horace Dormer Trelawney
Rebuilt: 1907
Restored by: Thorneycroft Vernon
Architect: John Douglas
Architectural style(s): Neo-Elizabethan
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated: 10 October 1985
Reference #: 1115438
Location in Cheshire

Shotwick House (originally known as Shotwick Park) is a large house in Great Saughall, Cheshire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[1]

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History

The house was built in 1872 for Horace Dormer Trelawny and designed by the Chester architect John Douglas.[2][3] In 1907 it was damaged by fire and following this it was rebuilt and extended, the architect again being John Douglas; at this time the owner was Thorneycroft Vernon.[4] In the later part of the 20th century it was in use as a nursing home.[1][5] Its stable courtyard, also designed by John Douglas, is listed Grade II.[6]

Architecture

Shotwick Park is built in brick with a tiled roof in neo-Elizabethan style.[7] The main front has seven bays with each external bay forming a turret; the turret on the left is larger and higher than that on the right. Both turrets are polygonal in shape, each with a pyramidal roof having a lead finial and a weather vane. The front has two storeys, other than the left turret that has three storeys. The central bay projects forwards and is canted. The roofs are steeply-sloping and are hipped; over each of the central five bays is a hipped gable. Tall chimneys rise from the roofs.[1]

The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner in the Buildings of England series describes it as a "fine" house.[7] In Douglas' biography, Edward Hubbard refers to its "massive solidity and indefinable form, its heavy hipped and gabled roofs and its elaborate use of brick".[8] The architectural writers Figueirdo and Treuherz comment that the house "is an effective composition from a distance, but close to, the detailing is dull".[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Shotwick House, Saughall", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1115438, retrieved 7 May 2011 
  2. ^ Hubbard 1991, p. 243.
  3. ^ History, Saughall and Shotwick Park Parish Council, http://www.saughall.gov.uk/Hist1.htm, retrieved 30 October 2009 
  4. ^ Hubbard 1991, p. 275.
  5. ^ a b de Figueiredo & Treuherz 1988, p. 270.
  6. ^ "Stable courtyard at Shotwick House, Saughall", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1330285, retrieved 7 May 2011 
  7. ^ a b Pevsner and Hubbard 2003, p. 229.
  8. ^ Hubbard 1991, p. 115.

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