- Burton Manor
Burton Manor is in the village of Burton in the district of
Ellesmere Port and Neston ,Cheshire ,England (gbmapping|SJ315741). It is a Grade IIlisted building .cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=475794 |title=Images of England: Burton Manor and attached Orangery |accessdate=2008-03-17 |publisher=English Heritage ] Formerly a private house, it is now a college offurther education with accommodation for resident students. [cite web |url=http://www.burtonmanor.com/intro.htm |title=Burton Manor |accessdate=2008-03-17 |publisher=Burton Manor College ]The house was built around 1805 for Richard Congreve and remodelled in 1904 by Sir Charles Nicholson for Henry Neville Gladstone, son of
William Gladstone . Anorangery was added in 1910 to a design byArthur Beresford Pite . It is built inashlar and hammer-dressed redsandstone with a roof of green slates. The chimney stacks are tall and ornate, built of stone and brick. The plan of the building is quadrangular with a centralcourtyard . Pevsner considers it to be a "classical design of no great force" and states that its most attractive feature is the courtyard. [cite book | last =Pevsner | first =Nikolaus | authorlink =Nikolaus Pevsner | coauthors =Edward Hubbard | title =The Buildings of England: Cheshire |edition= | publisher =Yale University Press | date =2003| origyear=1971| location =New Haven| pages = 122| url = | doi = | id = | isbn =0 300 09588 0 ] The garden was designed in the early 20th century as a formal garden designed by T. H. Mawson with a pool, lawns, and terraces with views over extensive parkland. [cite web |url=https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/landscapes/ukpg/sites/burtonma.htm |title=Burton Manor |accessdate=2008-03-17 |publisher=United Kingdom Database of Historic Parks and Gardens ]References
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