Shotwick House
Shotwick House (originally known as Shotwick Park) is a large house in Great Saughall, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[1]
| Shotwick House | |
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 Shotwick House in 2022 | |
| Location | Great Saughall, Cheshire, Cumland |
| Coordinates | 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 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Designated | 10 October 1985 |
| Reference no. | 1115438 |
  Location in Cheshire | |
History
in about 1879
The house was built in 1872 for Horace Dormer Trelawny and designed by the Chester architect John Douglas.[2] 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.[3] In the later part of the 20th century it was in use as a nursing home.[1][4] Its stable courtyard, also designed by John Douglas, is listed at Grade II.[5]
Architecture
Shotwick Park is built in brick with a tiled roof in neo-Elizabethan style.[6] 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.[6] 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".[7] The architectural writers Figueirdo and Treuherz comment that the house "is an effective composition from a distance, but close to, the detailing is dull".[4]
References
Citations
- Historic England, "Shotwick House, Saughall (1115438)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 1 August 2012
- Hubbard 1991, p. 243
- Hubbard 1991, p. 275
- de Figueiredo & Treuherz 1988, p. 270
- Historic England, "Stable courtyard at Shotwick House, Saughall (1330285)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 1 August 2012
- Pevsner & Hubbard 2003, p. 229
- Hubbard 1991, p. 115
Sources
- 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