Greenbank, Chester
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Greenbank is a former country house to the south of Chester, Cheshire, England. It was built in 1820 for John Swarbreck Rogers, a local glove manufacturer and mayor of Chester. From 1907 the house was occupied by Peter Jones, an Ellesmere Port businessman. He was a patron of the fine arts, who commissioned work from artists, and collected 18th-century furniture. In 1923 a doorway and a separate gatehouse were added, designed by C. H. Reilly.[1] The building was converted into a college in about 1980. It is a stuccoed, flat-roofed building in two storeys with seven bays.[2] The central three bays have a parapet higher than the others, giant pilasters, and panels decorated with garlands above tall windows.[1] The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as "one of the best Georgian houses of Chester".[3] The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2]
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References
[edit]- ^ a b de Figueiredo, Peter; Treuherz, Julian (1988), Cheshire Country Houses, Chichester: Phillimore, p. 235, ISBN 0-85033-655-4
- ^ a b Historic England, "Greenbank, Chester (1375776)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 July 2013
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Hubbard, Edward (2003) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 175–176, ISBN 0-300-09588-0
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