Chorlton Hall
CHORLTON HALL, CHORLTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130682
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Chorlton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CHORLTON HALL, CHORLTON LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130682
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Chorlton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHORLTON HALL, CHORLTON 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:
- CHORLTON HALL, CHORLTON 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:
- SJ 40756 71725
Details
SJ 47SW CHORLTON-BY-BACKFORD C.P. CHORLTON LANE
4/10 Chorlton Hall
II
House remodelled 1846/7 incorporating farmhouse and early C19th house. Gothic revival style. Rendered, slate roof, rendered stacks, stone plinth. 2½ storeys, 5 windows, central bay has 3 windows, projecting gabled bay at each side has one. Central bay sashes with glazing bars partly reusing those of original house have stone cills and 1846/7 hood moulds at 1st and 2nd floor. 1st floor windows have stone aprons. Shaped gablet over attic windows similar to shaped gables and all are above arrow slits. Gabled bays each have 1st floor oriel with sashes with glazing bars, above ground floor coat of arms with motto 'In veritate Victoria' of Wicksted Swan family. Canted porch below 3rd window of central bay has moulded parapet and sashes with glazing bars and hood moulds in each side panel. Central double doors with long glazed panels have a four-centred arch head below rectangular hood mould. C18th iron lantern. Angles are stop chamfered. Stone gable parapets. Interior: Doors of 6 panels, 2 doors with 5 raised and fielded panels, but most is mid C19th. Jacobean style plastered dining room ceiling, Gothic drawing room frieze and cornice, and pine open string staircase with moulded balusters and newels. Pevsner & Hubbard. Hess T., Watkin D.,A History of Chorlton Hall near Chester. (1979).
Listing NGR: SJ4075671725
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55393
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
Hess, T, Watkin, D, A History of Chorlton Hall near Chester, (1979)
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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