Dee Hills House

Dee Hills House
Dee Hills House
	Location in Cheshire
	53°11′30″N 2°52′36″W / 53.1918°N 2.8767°W
Location	Dee Hills Park, Chester, Cheshire, England
OS grid reference	SJ 415 664
History
Built	1814
Site notes
Architect	Thomas Harrison
Architectural style	Neoclassical
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated	10 January 1972
Reference no.	1375763

Dee Hills House is in Dee Hills Park, Chester, Cheshire, England.

History

The house was built as a country house in 1814. An extension was built in the 1930s. It was recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building on 10 January 1972.^[1] It was designed by Thomas Harrison for Robert Baxter, and has since been altered and used as offices.^[2]^[3]

Architecture

The building is made up of two storeys with a three-bay garden projection with Ionic columns facing the River Dee.^[2] The front entrance includes a Roman-styled Doric porch. The house's south front features a veranda with four Doric columns.^[1]

References

Citations

1 2 Historic England, "Old Government House, Chester (1375763)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 21 November 2011
1 2 Hartwell et al. 2011, p. 281.
↑ 'Topography 900-1914: Early modern and georgian, 1550-1840', in A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 Part 1, the City of Chester: General History and Topography, ed. C P Lewis and A T Thacker (London, 2003), pp. 220-229. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol5/pt1/pp220-229 [accessed 4 March 2020].

Sources

Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 281, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6

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[NHLE-1] 1 2 Historic England, "Old Government House, Chester (1375763)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 21 November 2011

[FOOTNOTEHartwellHydeHubbardPevsner2011281-2] 1 2 Hartwell et al. 2011, p. 281.

[3] 'Topography 900-1914: Early modern and georgian, 1550-1840', in A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 Part 1, the City of Chester: General History and Topography, ed. C P Lewis and A T Thacker (London, 2003), pp. 220-229. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol5/pt1/pp220-229 [accessed 4 March 2020].

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Dee Hills House

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