Antrobus Antrobus may refer to: * Antrobus (surname) *Antrobus, Cheshire, a village in Cheshire, England *Antrobus baronets The Antrobus Baronetcy, of Antrobus in the County Palatine of Chester, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It w ...

is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in Cheshire West and Chester, England. It is entirely rural, and contains 25 buildings that are recorded in the

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as designated

listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

s, all of which are listed at Grade II. This is the lowest of the three grades, and contains "buildings of national importance and special interest". Apart from St Mark's Church and the former and current Friends' Meeting Houses, all the buildings are houses or are related to farms.

Buildings

, The brick building with its slate roof was altered in the 19th century. Its features include openings and archways of varying sizes, diamond-shaped vents, pitching holes, and casement windows. , - , North Lodge, Belmont Hall
, , align="center", , A symmetrical single-storey brick lodge with a slate roof. It has a projecting Tuscan

sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...

porch with an entablature. On each side of the porch are sash windows. , - , Greenfields Cottage (south)
, , align="center", , A painted brick building with slate roofs, in a single storey plus attics. The windows are casements and dormers. , - , Sandiway Farmhouse
, , align="center", , A brick two-storey building on a stone

plinth A pedestal (from French ''piédestal'', Italian ''piedistallo'' 'foot of a stall') or plinth is a support at the bottom of a statue, vase, column, or certain altars. Smaller pedestals, especially if round in shape, may be called socles. In ...

with slate roofs. It has a Tuscan doorcase with an open

pediment Pediments are gables, usually of a triangular shape. Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the lintel, or entablature, if supported by columns. Pediments can contain an overdoor and are usually topped by hood moulds. A pedim ...

, and sash windows. , - , Grandsire's Green Farmhouse
, , align="center", , A two-storey symmetrical brick house with a slate roof, it is set on a stone

and has rusticated

quoins Quoins ( or ) are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall. Some are structural, providing strength for a wall made with inferior stone or rubble, while others merely add aesthetic detail to a corner. According to one 19th century encyclopedia, t ...

. The doorcase is in Tuscan style with a

, and the windows are

sashes Sashes Island is an island in the River Thames in England at Cookham Lock near Cookham, Berkshire. It is now open farmland, but has Roman and Anglo-Saxon connections. The island is located between Hedsor Water and the present navigation cha ...

. , - , Lodge,

Cogshall Hall Cogshall Hall is a country house near the village of Comberbach, Cheshire, England. It was built in about 1830 for Peter Jackson. A kitchen wing was added to the rear during the early 20th century. It is constructed in red-brown brick, an ...

, , align="center", , A brick building with

dressings and a slate roof in a single storey. It has a projecting Tuscan porch with a stone

frieze In architecture, the frieze is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs. Paterae are also usually used to decorate friezes. Even when neither columns nor ...

and a

. In the left end is a canted

bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room. Types Bay window is a generic term for all protruding window constructions, regardless of whether they are curved or angular, or ...

; the other windows are casements. , - , The Pole
, , align="center", , A stuccoed house with rusticated

, and a slate roof in two storeys plus an attic. It is a symmetrical building with three bays and a single-storey canted porch. , - , St Mark's Church
, , align="center", 1847–48 , This is a

Commissioners' church A Commissioners' church, also known as a Waterloo church and Million Act church, is an Anglican church in the United Kingdom built with money voted by Parliament as a result of the Church Building Acts of 1818 and 1824. The 1818 Act supplie ...

bellcote A bellcote, bell-cote or bell-cot is a small framework and shelter for one or more bells. Bellcotes are most common in church architecture but are also seen on institutions such as schools. The bellcote may be carried on brackets projecting from ...

surmounted by a

weathercock A wind vane, weather vane, or weathercock is an instrument used for showing the direction of the wind. It is typically used as an architectural ornament to the highest point of a building. The word ''vane'' comes from the Old English word , m ...

on the ridge at the east end of the

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

. , - , Pig styes, Sandilands Farm
, , align="center", , A range of six pig styes in brick with slate roofs and individual frontage pens. At the right end is a single-storey feed mixing house. , - , Frandley Quaker Meeting House and wall
, , align="center", 1880 , The meeting house is in brick with

dressings and a Welsh slate roof, and is in

Gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...

style. It has a rectangular plan, the doorway in the

gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesth ...

end has a four-centred arched head flanked by lancet windows, and there is a triple stepped lancet above. Along the sides are double and triple lancet windows and stepped

buttress A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall. Buttresses are fairly common on more ancient buildings, as a means of providing support to act against the lateral ( ...

es. The burial ground is enclosed by a wall dating from the 17th century. This is in brick with red sandstone copings, and in the centre of the front is a gateway with a flat arch containing an iron gate. , -

References

Citations Sources * {{DEFAULTSORT:Antrobus Listed buildings in Cheshire West and Chester Lists of listed buildings in Cheshire

Buildings

See also

References