The Old Hall

THE OLD HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1135851
Date first listed:
12-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
The Old Hall
Statutory Address:
THE OLD HALL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1135851
Date first listed:
12-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
The Old Hall
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD HALL

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD HALL

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

District:
Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Cholmondeley
National Grid Reference:
SJ 54576 51657

Details

c SJ 55 SW CHOLMONDELEY C.P. CHOLMONDELEY PARK

1/24 The Old Hall

12.1.67

GV II

House, circa 1707 by William Smith of Warwick for the first Earl of Cholmondeley. The Hall incorporated an Elizabethan building but in 1801 the structure was reduced to the size of the present dwelling. Whitened brick with slate roof. 2 storeys 3 bays with one-bay, lower, 2-storey wing to east. The central entrance is a rebated 6-panel door in a moulded doorcase with plain rectangular overlight. The opening is flanked by engaged Roman Doric columns, without bases, which support a gabled, slated, hood by means of brackets fixed to the column faces. Projecting brick bands at first floor and eaves levels. Large recessed sashes with glazing bars, stone sills and segmental stone heads at ground floor and with stone eared architraves and flat heads at first floor. The opening over the entrance is filled. The east wing has two-light flush casements with stone sills and segmental heads. The west gable has a filled lunette above a partly filled opening with eared architraves. The north front has 2-bay gable set forward with pairs of sashes under segmental heads, and sashes with eared architraves at first floor . Stone band at first floor and brick eaves band with filled lunette in the gable. Interior: Panelled window shutters and door linings. Six-panel doors, some with fielded panels.

The Old Hall at its full extent is illustrated in Country Life 19 July 1973

Listing NGR: SJ5457451660

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
56894
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Country Life in 19 July, (1973)

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of The Old Hall

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