Acton Bridge is a civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England. It is mainly rural and contains the village of Acton Bridge. The parish is traversed by the River Weaver and Weaver Navigation in an east–west direction, the West Coast Main Line in a north–south direction, and the A49 road runs from northwest to southeast. It contains nine buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Two of these are listed at Grade II*, and the other seven at Grade II. Most of the buildings are houses or farm buildings, but the list also includes a railway viaduct, a lock on the Weaver Navigation, and a guidepost.
This is basically a timber-framed house with a hall and a cross-wing, later enclosed in brick. Inside the house are mural paintings of Cheshire scenes.[2][3]
Originally a farmhouse, then three cottages, and then converted into a house but damaged by a fire in 1953. It is timber-framed on a stone base, with a plaster infill. The roof is tiled.[4]
Additions and alterations have been carried out since. It is a long two-storey brick house with a slate roof. It has a late 18th-century doorcase with a later stone portico.[2][5]
A two-storey symmetrical farmhouse in red brick on a stone plinth with a Welsh slate roof. At the entrance is a flutedDoric doorcase with a fanlight.[7]
