List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: BALDERTON DIARY
List entry Number: 1115836
Location
BALDERTON DIARY, BALDERTON
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Cheshire West and Chester | Unitary Authority | Dodleston |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 02-Dec-1991
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 351183
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List entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
The following building shall be added:-
DODLESTON
SJ 36 SE Balderton
2/10000 Balderton Dairy
II
Cheese factory, now disused. 1874-75 by John Douglas for the first
Duke of Westminster. Red brick and plaster-panelled timber framing;
slate roof. 1 storey and attic and single storey. 4-bay main block
with additional wings to right and to rear left.
Bay 1 projects and houses the office with 8-pane iron casements to a
5-light brick-mullioned window above a string course. Above this is
a jettied timber-framed gable with boarded 3-light mullioned window
and oversailing verges. Bay 2 is recessed and has Tudor-arched
doorway with quoined sandstone surround and boarded door on strap
hinges; altered window to right; studwork beneath the eaves includes
an original stair-window. Bay 3 is a gabled projection with boarded
window beneath a taking-in door with overlight and hoist. Bay 4 has
2 boarded windows and studwork beneath oversailing eaves on struts.
The roof over the office has catslide projection over stair outshut
on left return; brick ridge stack set to rear.
Right end of range terminates in hipped roof; to rear of this is a
large boiler-house chimney with sunken panels and incomplete top.
Side wing to right of main range is altered.
Left return: to rear of office is a hipped-roof block with oversailing
eaves on struts. Beyond this is a sunken single-storey storehouse
with moulded-brick window.
Balderton dairy is a rare example of the cheese factories built on
Cheshire estates during the late C19 when cheese became a mainstay of
farming, transported by special trains from Cheshire to the northern
industrial towns.
Listing NGR: SJ3726062282
Selected Sources
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National Grid Reference: SJ 37260 62282
Map
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