PUDDINGTON OLD HALL, PRIESTS HOUSE AND PRIESTS HOUSE FLAT

PUDDINGTON OLD HALL, PRIESTS HOUSE AND PRIESTS HOUSE FLAT, PUDDINGTON VILLAGE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1115567
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: PUDDINGTON OLD HALL, PRIESTS HOUSE AND PRIESTS HOUSE FLAT
Statutory Address:: PUDDINGTON OLD HALL, PRIESTS HOUSE AND PRIESTS HOUSE FLAT, PUDDINGTON VILLAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1115567
Date first listed:: 04-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: PUDDINGTON OLD HALL, PRIESTS HOUSE AND PRIESTS HOUSE FLAT
Statutory Address 1:: PUDDINGTON OLD HALL, PRIESTS HOUSE AND PRIESTS HOUSE FLAT, PUDDINGTON VILLAGE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PUDDINGTON OLD HALL, PRIESTS HOUSE AND PRIESTS HOUSE FLAT, PUDDINGTON VILLAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Puddington
National Grid Reference:: SJ 32618 73314

Details

SJ 37 SW PUDDINGTON C.P. THE VILLAGE

3/15 Puddington Old Hall, Priest's House and Priest's House Flat, (formerly listed as Puddington Old Hall). 4/6/1952

GV II*

Formerly moated manor house, now 2 houses and a flat: two wings late C15 and one wing early C16 for the Massey family. Rewalling of early C18 and some additions dated 1909. Timber framed, outer walls are brick clad, and roughcast. Welsh slate roof with stone ridge, mixture of lateral and ridge brick chimneys. House on 3 sides of courtyard. 2 storey and attics. Outer facades have brick band at 1st floor and a mixture of casements with glazing bars. 4 doorways of which the one in north-east corner has porch dated 1909. Entry under wooden lintel into courtyard through west range. North range has 2-storey 3-bay south front. Eaves project and are supported on wooden posts from a narrow gallery at 1st floor, itself supported on posts. Behind the wall is close-studded with heavy arch braces. The ground storey has 2 original casements with wood mullions and shaped wooden sills, and a blocked basket arched doorway and a rectangular frame to a board door. Above is a blocked 3-light wood mullioned window and copies of the wooden casements. East front of west range has close-studding with middle rail and weaker arch bracing surviving in upper storey. South range is now hidden by 2-storey late C19 addition. Interior: Puddington Old Hall: main range has a line of rooms reached from a corridor. Some heavy ceiling beams exposed but most fittings including staircase of late C19/early C20. Upstairs are a mixture of C17 6-panelled doors, 3-board doors and panelled pine doors with raised fields. Evidence of close-studding of this range visible in parts. Priest's House Flat: has large blocked fireplace but chamfered and stopped bracket of bressumer visible. Double chamfered and stopped beam by staircase. Upstairs are 3 early trusses: one has tiebeam and collar with open vertical studs, one has an arch-braced collar, and one has a cambered tiebeam, formerly arch-braced and probably carrying a king or crown-post. Suggests the north-west corner had a 3-bay room open to the roof or that it was a solar. Priest's House: not inspected. Saint John Plessington (c1637-1679), tutor to the Massey children and underground missionary Catholic priest was siezed at this house following the Popish Plot. He was hung at Chester Castle and his quartered body was returned to be displayed at the Old Hall before the family managed to have it buried at Burton. D H Farmer The Oxford Dictionary of Saints Oxford 1978.

Listing NGR: SJ3261873314

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Legacy System number:: 55658
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Farmer, D H, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, (1978), 333

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.