Hayman's House

HAYMAN'S HOUSE, HOCKER LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1139606
Date first listed:
14-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:
Hayman's House
Statutory Address:
HAYMAN'S HOUSE, HOCKER LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1139606
Date first listed:
14-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
Hayman's House
Statutory Address 1:
HAYMAN'S HOUSE, HOCKER 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HAYMAN'S HOUSE, HOCKER LANE

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

District:
Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Over Alderley
National Grid Reference:
SJ 85505 76137

Details

SJ 87 NE OVER ALDERLEY C.P. HOCKER LANE (North Side)

5/165 Hayman's House (formerly listed as Hayman's Farm House)

14/4/1967 II*

Small hall: completed 1528, renovations to chimney and addition of porch 1583, C17 outshut, all for Acton family, some C19 and C20 alterations. Timber-framed with brick nogging on sandstone plinth, some repairs and small additions to brick. Kerridge stone slate roof, stone ridge, 1 stone ridge chimney and 1 brick gable chimney. H-plan house with added continuous outshut to rear. 2-storey. 4-bay and 3-gabled front. Left end bay has 5 by 3 small timber frames with C20 3-light wooden casement below and 2-light in gable. 2nd bay has a projecting 2-storey porch with bead moulded entrance with a studded board door in a similar case behind. Both the porch and the bay behind have chevroning and porch gable has a miniature tiebeam and diagonal strut truss. 3rd bay is replaced in brick and right end bay has 5 by 3 timber small frames, both with C20 casements. Timber framed outshut to rear and a small brick addition. Interior: Lobby entry against ashlar central stack. Hall was probably open to the roof originally, with a large inglenook fireplace with a chamfered cambered fire beam. Now has late C16 floor with deeply chamfered ceiling beams with quirk and tongue stops. Similar beams in parlour to left which has a late C16 stone fireplace with a cyma and bead moulded surround. Simpler but similar fireplace upstairs. 3 3-board doors with iron strap hinges. Room over porch may have been small chapel or oratory. To rear in a brick lean-to are the remains of a complex of brick ovens. Underneath is a corbelled stone cellar one lit by a 2-light stone mullion window in the plinth that may belong to an earlier building. --

Listing NGR: SJ8550576137

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Legacy System number:
58331
Legacy System:
LBS

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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