Shotwick House
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 The entrance front of Shotwick Park in about 1879 |
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| Location: | Great Saughall, Cheshire, England |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: 53°13′32″N 2°57′47″W / 53.2256°N 2.9631°W |
| 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 |
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Listed Building – Grade II
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| Designated: | 10 October 1985 |
| Reference #: | 1115438 |
 Location in Cheshire
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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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[edit] 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]
[edit] 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]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ 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
- ^ Hubbard 1991, p. 243.
- ^ History, Saughall and Shotwick Park Parish Council, http://www.saughall.gov.uk/Hist1.htm, retrieved 30 October 2009
- ^ Hubbard 1991, p. 275.
- ^ a b de Figueiredo & Treuherz 1988, p. 270.
- ^ "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
- ^ a b Pevsner and Hubbard 2003, p. 229.
- ^ Hubbard 1991, p. 115.
[edit] Bibliography
- de Figueiredo, Peter; Treuherz, Julian (1988), Cheshire Country Houses, Chichester: Phillimore, ISBN 0-85033-655-4
- Hubbard, Edward (1991), The Work of John Douglas, London: The Victorian Society, ISBN 0-901657-16-6
- Pevsner, Nikolaus; Hubbard, Edward (2003) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-09588-0
