Tabley Old Hall

TABLEY OLD HALL, CHESTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1139011
Date first listed:
03-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Tabley Old Hall
Statutory Address:
TABLEY OLD HALL, CHESTER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1139011
Date first listed:
03-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Tabley Old Hall
Statutory Address 1:
TABLEY OLD HALL, CHESTER ROAD

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:
TABLEY OLD HALL, CHESTER ROAD

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

District:
Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Tabley Inferior
National Grid Reference:
SJ 71977 77382

Details

SJ 77 NW TABLEY INFERIOR C.P. (Off) CHESTER ROAD

6/71 Tabley Old Hall

G.V. II*

House, now derelict. What still survives is the shell, c1670, of a house which contained a fine timber-framed hall of c1380 . Red English garden wall bond brick with stone dressings. 3 storeys. Entrance front: partial survival of E-shaped front. Central projecting stone porch with arched opening. 2 plain-shafted columns to left with Ionic capitals, standing on pedestals with lozenge-shaped panelling. Right hand pair of columns now missing but plinths and capitals remain. Dentil cornice above. First floor walling of brick with stone quoins: One 3-light mullioned window with hood mould. Blind second floor has oculus. The recessed wall to the left of this has now collapsed but the projecting wing to the left of that has a 4-light stone ovolo-mullioned basement window with 4-light ovolo mullioned and transomed ground floor window and 4-light mullioned window to first floor. To right of porch wing is a 4-light ovolo-mullioned window with a similar to first floor and oculus to second floor. Wing to right of this has stone quoins. 4-light mullioned windows to ground and first floors with oculus to second floor. The hall, remains of which now lie on the ground, is illustrated in Country Life for 14 July 1928.

Listing NGR: SJ7197777382

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
58564
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Country Life in 14 July, (1928)

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,

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 Tabley Old Hall

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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