Backford Hall
BACKFORD HALL, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115554
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Backford Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BACKFORD HALL, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115554
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Backford Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BACKFORD HALL, CHURCH LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BACKFORD HALL, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Backford
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3979371843
Details
SJ 37SE
3/7
BACKFORD C.P.
CHURCH LANE (WEST SIDE)
Backford Hall
II
GV
House, now Cheshire County Council Highways and Transportation
offices. 1863 by John Cunningham for E.H.Clegg in exuberant
Elizabethan Jacobean and Bohemian Rococco styles. On site of 1565
hall. Red brick with diaper work, stone plinth, quoins and dressings,
graded slate roofs. In 2 blocks joined by corridor. Hall wing has 2
storeys, attics and cellars. 3 main bays of 7 windows, symmetrically
arranged. Central porch with window set back at each side projects
from central bay which itself is set forward. Sash windows in
shouldered stone surrounds at ground level have Rococco type heads
over shell motif and stone apron. Central bay 1st floor windows below
shaped gables, alternating with smaller rounded gablets. Jacobean
style stone porch has rounded outer arch on tapered pilasters with
strap work decoration. Simpler inner arch leading to double doors at
left and right. Balcony with pierced stone parapet over porch and
adjacent bays which have similarly decorated pilasters at angles.
Tall brick stacks at gable and at sides of central bay have multiple
stone decorated flues. Moulded stone first floor bands. Crest over
windows in side bays. Left hand block, probably service wing, is
similar but plainer. 2 storeys, 6 sash windows. One window slightly
projecting bay with shaped gable at each side. Multiple flues on stack
at gable ends and on ridge. Ground floor obscured by one storey brick
wall with stone quoins and coping. One door has surround of
alternating quoins. Stone pier at left end has moulded cornice and
ball finial. Two wings are joined by 2 storey 2 window corridor.
Interior. Hall wing has heavy mouldings. Ground floor doorcases have
broken pediments and panelled doors. Open string stair C17th style.
Heavily moulded interior to glazed canopy over stair well. Pilasters
and piers in hall have strap work decoration. Elaborately moulded and
panelled ceilings, friezes and architrave adjoining ground floor
rooms, and containing sliding panelled doors. Pevsner & Hubbard;
Obit. J Cunningham in The Builder Oct.18th, (1873) p.821.
Listing NGR: SJ 39793 71843
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55390
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
The Builder in 18 October, (1873), 821
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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