Building Name

The Shiel, 121 Park Road Hale Cheshire

Date
1904 - 1906
Street
121 Park Road,
District/Town
Hale, Altrincham
County/Country
GMCA, England
Architect
Work
New Build
Listed
Grade II

House. 1906. Edgar Wood. Brick with stone slate roof. Large detached asymmetrical house with 2 storeys. 3 bays, the central one projecting and having an off-centre door with dentilled architrave surround and flat hood; 5-light mullioned window above and coped gable with coped kneelers. Bays 1 and 3 have mullion and transom windows to ground floor and mullioned to first. All windows have leaded lights. Steeply pitched roof with 2 ridge stacks. The right gable has an inglenook chimney stack with curved canted sides and fire windows, as well as a small C20 extension. The left elevation has a 2-storey canted bay window. The attached garage (formerly coach house) is in the same style although may be of a slightly later date. Panelled stair, decorative plaster ceilings downstairs and cross-barrel-vaulted hall. 3 barrel-vaulted bedroom ceilings (one of which is c1980). Some good fittings, light switches etc. Built speculatively as part of the Richardson Estate.