TRAFFORD HALL WITH ATTACHED SERVICE WING AND CARRIAGE HOUSE

TRAFFORD HALL WITH ATTACHED SERVICE WING AND CARRIAGE HOUSE, INCE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1145900
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:: TRAFFORD HALL WITH ATTACHED SERVICE WING AND CARRIAGE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: TRAFFORD HALL WITH ATTACHED SERVICE WING AND CARRIAGE HOUSE, INCE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1145900
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 20-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: TRAFFORD HALL WITH ATTACHED SERVICE WING AND CARRIAGE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: TRAFFORD HALL WITH ATTACHED SERVICE WING AND CARRIAGE HOUSE, INCE LANE

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:: TRAFFORD HALL WITH ATTACHED SERVICE WING AND CARRIAGE HOUSE, INCE LANE

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

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Mickle Trafford and District
National Grid Reference:: SJ 45117 72162

Details

SJ 47SE 5/55

WIMBOLDS TRAFFORD C.P. INCE LANE (East Side) Trafford Hall with attached service wing and carriage house

(Formerly listed as Wimbolds Trafford Hall)

1.6.67

II*

House. 1756 with added side wings and at rear. Brown brick, in Flemish bond, slate roofs, stone dressings, 3 storeys with cellars. 5 windows, with central bay projecting forward slightly. Sashes with glazing bars have stone cills and splayed heads with rusticated voussoirs and projecting keystones. Central Doric tetrastyle porch. Double doors, panelled, part glazed below rectangular fan with semicircular glazing bars, in shouldered doorcase. Brick parapet has stone piers at the angles of the centre bay. Moulded cornice across front and turning round corners. Moulded stone plinth, rusticated quoins. Right hand side has 1st floor Venetian window and 2nd floor Diocletian window, between blank windows with similar dressings. At left hand side is 2 storey service wing, behind brick wall with rusticated stone gate piers with flat stone coping and pyramidal capping. Similar single pier on wall to right of house. Attached to service wing is former carriage house possibly incorporating earlier kitchens. Brown brick, hipped slate roof, rusticated stone quoins. House has iron downspouts and rainwater heads, dated 1756. Interior. Doors of 6 raised and fielded panels in lugged doorcases, which in hall have plain frieze and flat cornice, and inside rooms are pedimented. 1st floor doorcase has imbricated frieze and egg and dart mouldings on architrave. Doorcase with semicircular fan opposite Venetian window. Dining room walls have large bolection panel. Panelled dado in former library and at 1st floor. Fireplaces mostly original, one has Ionic pilasters. Some overmantels. Attic room has fireplace and overmantel with raised and fielded planels between panelled pilasters and raised and fielded panelled cupboards. Moulded cornices, panelled shutters. Open string stair has 3 turned and twisted balusters per tread, turned newels, moulded rail and curtail, floral brackets.

Pevsner and Hubbard. Ormerod, G., History of the County Palatine and City of Chester 2nd ed. London (1882).

Listing NGR: SJ4511772162

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Legacy System number:: 55438
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ormerod, G, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester: Volume 1, (1882)
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)

Legal

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