Farndon Local History Pages

Deebanks - Grade II Listed Building

Deebanks

     
Deebanks 1907
Deebanks c.1950
Deebanks map 1905
     
Deebanks modern aerial
Deebanks
Deebanks
     
Deebanks
riverside
Deebanks
riverside
Deebanks
     
Deebanks
in flood, from Holt
Deebanks
in flood
Deebanks
in flood
     
Deebanks
in flood
Deebanks
in flood
Deebanks
in snow



Heritage England, official list entry

Location   High Street, Farndon - SJ 41140 54510

Year listed   28 November 1984

Detail    House, now divided, probably 1830's, pebbledashed with hipped grey slate roof. Two storeys with three rooms to front plus north wing of one room. The main block is symmetrical to front. Projecting Roman Doric porch carries semi-circular bow window with 16-pane sash to front and 8-pane sash to each side. To each side of porch is a canted bay window to lower storey (16-pane sash to front and 8-pane to each side) and a shuttered 16-pane sash to upper storey. Thee prominent pebble-dashed ridge chimneys. The left wing has a Gothic window to each storey. Features of the right end of main block are similar to those of its front: lower storey has arched entrance with fanlight and canted bay window to right; upper storey has four 16-pane sashes.

Interior: not inspected.

Source: Historic England, National Heritage List for England

Farndon: The History of a Cheshire Village, Frank A. Latham (Ed.)

Page 104;

Down by the river stands one of the largest houses in the village. This is known as Dee Banks and is owned by Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Noble although much of their time is spent in Northern Ireland.

Frank A. Latham (Ed.), Farndon: The History of a Cheshire Village, (1981)



Thelwalls of Bridge House (now demolished, the site now withing Deebanks estate)

Dr William Thelwall M.R.C.S., L.S.A., lived at Bridge House, which was once within the Deebanks estate. This article is from the Farndon War Memorial website, as his son Reginald/Robert lost his life and is recorded on the war memorial.

Reginald (Robert) Thelwall 47th Bn., Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)

Tracing Reginald has been quite a puzzle. Although he is on the War Memorial, he is not on the Commonwealth War Graves Register. This is not unusual, but it has hampered research. Yet there is a Robert Thelwall on the CWGC register. His father was Dr Thelwall - Same as Reginald's father, so clearly they must be brothers. But the age given at death fits Reginald, not Robert. Could Robert have taken Reginald's identity to get into the army? Dr Thelwall was William Thelwall M.R.C.S., L.S.A., a surgeon who was born in Farndon and lived at Bridge House, near the end of the bridge over the Dee. Read more about the family and what happened to the the sons of William Thelwall, and their military service. Read too about how Thelwalls, and their relatives from the village, were pioneer settlers in New Zealand, and left a little bit of Farndon behind - but in New Zealand, not here.

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