Listed buildings in Ellesmere Port

Ellesmere Port is an industrial town in Cheshire West and Chester, England. It contains eight buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings, all of which are at Grade II. This grade is the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".^[1] The buildings in the list include houses, a stable, a railway station, and a former cinema.

Name and location	Photograph	Date	Notes
180 Chester Road 53°17′31″N 2°57′13″W / 53.29200°N 2.95374°W	—	Early 18th century	A two-storey cottage with an attic with a slate roof and a stone ridge. It is in brick on a stone plinth, the brick painted with bands between the floors. Inside the cottage is an inglenook, and original oak beams and cupboards.[2]
184 Chester Road 53°17′32″N 2°57′11″W / 53.29224°N 2.95293°W	—	1746	A pebbledashed cottage with a slate roof in two storeys with an attic. The ground floor windows at the front are original sashes, and there is an original horizontal sliding sash window in the attic. The first floor windows are replacement casements. Inside the cottage is an inglenook.[3]
78–80 Chester Road 53°17′44″N 2°57′22″W / 53.2956°N 2.9562°W	—	c. 1830s	A symmetrical pair of stuccoed houses; No 78 has a slate roof, and No 80 has a roof of concrete tiles. On the front are pedimented gables and canted bay windows. The windows are sashes with stucco architraves.[4]
Stable behind 78 Chester Road 53°17′44″N 2°57′23″W / 53.29551°N 2.95648°W	—	c. 1830s	A painted brick stable, partly converted into a garage, but retaining some original features, including a groom's room, two loose boxes, an iron hay rack, and hooks.[5]
354 and 356 Chester Road 53°17′11″N 2°56′52″W / 53.2864°N 2.9477°W	—	c. 1835	A pair of stuccoed semi-detached houses with slate roofs. On the front are gables with open pediments, and projecting round-arched porches. The windows have plaster architraves with pediments on consoles.[6]
Ellesmere Port railway station 53°16′56″N 2°53′47″W / 53.2822°N 2.8963°W		c. 1863	The listed structure consists of the original station building and the attached stationmaster's house. It is constructed in red sandstone with slate roofs, and is in one and two storeys. Its features include coped Dutch gables with ball finials, casement windows in cream stone surrounds, a glazed porch on a sandstone plinth, and a recessed platform canopy supported by a decorated cast iron column.[7]
Christ Church 53°17′10″N 2°53′42″W / 53.2861°N 2.8951°W	—	1869–71	Originally an Anglican church designed by Penson and Ritchie, and extended in 1922–25 by Barnish and Grayson, it became redundant in 1994, and was subsequently used as an Elim Pentecostal Church. It is built in sandstone and has a cruciform plan, consisting of a nave, a chancel, transepts, a vestry, and a south steeple with a pyramidal spire.[8][9]
Queen's Cinema 53°16′53″N 2°53′50″W / 53.2815°N 2.8973°W		1912–13	The cinema was built for the Ellesmere Port Picture Palace Company, closing in about 1968, and then converted into a bingo hall. It is constructed in brick, which is pebbledashed at the front. Inside is a small foyer, and a double-height auditorium with a balcony.[10]

References

Citations

1. Listed Buildings, Historic England, retrieved 1 April 2015
2. Historic England, "180 Chester Road, Ellesmere Port (1320401)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 25 June 2013
3. Historic England, "184 Chester Road, Ellesmere Port (1130334)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 25 June 2013
4. Historic England, "78–80 Chester Road, Ellesmere Port (1130333)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 25 June 2013
5. Historic England, "Detached stable behind number 78 Chester Road, Ellesmere Port (1330425)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 25 June 2013
6. Historic England, "354 and 356 Chester Road, Ellesmere Port (1115425)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 25 June 2013
7. Historic England, "Ellesmere Port railway station (1329997)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 25 June 2013
8. Hartwell et al. (2011), p. 355
9. Historic England, "Christ Church, Ellesmere Port (1138822)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 23 March 2015
10. Historic England, "Queen's Cinema (1384939)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 25 June 2013

Sources

• Hartwell, Claire; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6