Building Name

Hinderton Hall near Neston

Date
1856 - 1857
District/Town
Neston, Wirral
County/Country
Cheshire, England
Client
Christopher Bushell
Work
New build
Contractor
Haigh and Co. of Liverpool

Built for Christopher Bushell a Liverpool wine merchant. The original stable block and three lodges also survive.

HINDERTON, CHESHIRE - Hinderton, of which we give a view and, ground-plan in our present number, is the residence of Mr. Christopher Bushell, and has lately been erected from the designs of Mr. A. Waterhouse, of Manchester. It is situated on rising ground above the village of Neston, and about two miles, from the Hooton Station of the Chester and. Birkenhead Railway. The local red sandstone is the material employed in the house, terraces, offices, stables, and lodge; the house itself being in addition lined with brickwork. The principal apartments are finished ill oak and pitch-pine; and the door-beams above, instead" of being concealed by plaster, are moulded, and supported on corbels of Caen stone. The hall, paved with Minton's tiles, has gallery on two sides leading to various rooms on the chamber-floor, and is open to the roof. The base- ment story, which is lofty and surrounded in part by an open area, contains a billiard-room, servants'' hall, and other boarded apartments. From the tower is obtained an extensive prospect, embracing the estuaries of the Mersey and Dee, and the Denbighshire hills. Messrs. Haigh and Co. of Liverpool, were the contractors of the work. Messrs. Aspinwall and Monkhouse, of Manchester, were employed as internal decorators.

Reference    The Builder 15 January 1859 page 42 with ground plan
Reference    Cheshire Country Houses page 242