Abbotsford is a house on the east side of Warrington Road,
Cuddington,
Cheshire
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, England. It is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England
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as a designated Grade II
listed building
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.
The house was built in 1890 for Jabez S. Thompson of
Northwich
Northwich is a market town and civil parish in the Cheshire West and Chester borough of Cheshire, England. It lies on the Cheshire Plain, at the confluence of the rivers Weaver and Dane, east of Chester, south of Warrington and south of Ma ...
and designed by the
Chester
Chester is a cathedral city in Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, Wales, River Dee, close to the England–Wales border. With a built-up area population of 92,760 in 2021, it is the most populous settlement in the borough of Cheshire West an ...
architect
John Douglas.
slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism. It is the finest-grained foliated metamorphic ro ...
roofs. Its plan is irregular, with a front of five bays which includes two 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 ...
s and plaster diapering.[
]
See also
* Listed buildings in Cuddington, Cheshire
* List of houses and associated buildings by John Douglas
References
Grade II listed buildings in Cheshire
Houses completed in 1890
Country houses in Cheshire
John Douglas buildings
Grade II listed houses
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