Where is Eccleston Hill?

Eccleston Hill is in North Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 53.1547°, -2.8845°.

Gardens · North Wales

Eccleston Hill

Eccleston Hill — a garden in wales-north, United Kingdom.

Detail of Sun Cottages, Eccleston - geograph.org.uk - 6675100 — Stephen Richards — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1 h–2.5 h
Best time of year: Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)

Dog-friendly

Eccleston Hill is a garden of interest in wales-north, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

Eccleston Hill is a house in the village of Eccleston, Cheshire, England. The house, with its attached conservatory, wall, and service wing, is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

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Background

History

The house was designed by the Chester architect John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster.<br /> Colonel W.N. Lloyd, (late Royal Horse Artillery) of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms was listed as living at Eccleston Hill on the 1911 UK census.

Architecture

Eccleston Hill is "a large house, virtually a mansion". The house has two storeys plus attics. It is built in red brick, with blue brick diapering and stone dressings. The roof is in red tiles; it is hipped with gables and dormers. Tall shaped chimney stacks rise from the roof. The entrance front faces north and includes an oak timber-framed porch. A wall for growing fruit trees extends to the east from the south east corner of the house at the end of which is a timber conservatory with an octagonal lantern. Extending from the northeast corner of the house to the north is a single-storey stable wing. Although there have been alterations to the interior, Douglas' staircase and panelling to…

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