Inglewood, Cheshire
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Inglewood is a house to the north-west of the village of Ledsham,
Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shrop ...
, England. It was built in 1909, but is dated 1915. The house was built for Frederick H. Fox, a
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who made his fortune in
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. It was later one of the seats of the Gordon family. As of 2011 it is a hotel called Inglewood Manor Hotel. The house is mainly
half-timbered Timber framing () and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy Beam (structure), timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and Woodworking joints, joined timbers with joints secure ...
, with stone dressings, and brick chimneys decorated with
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. It is roofed with Lakeland
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 ...
. Its architectural style is late
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. The house has a rectangular plan, with three fronts in two and three storeys. The entrance is on the east front, which has eight
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; the south and west fronts each have five bays. On the south side is a balcony overlooking the gardens. The house is recorded in the
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as a designated Grade II
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. Also listed Grade II are the south and west terrace walls of the garden, and the east terrace walls and a
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.


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Listed buildings in Ledsham, Cheshire Ledsham is a civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England. It contains seven 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 ...


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