Willot Hall
WILLOT HALL, WILMSLOW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1221901
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Willot Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WILLOT HALL, WILMSLOW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1221901
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Willot Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILLOT HALL, WILMSLOW 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.
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:
- WILLOT HALL, WILMSLOW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Prestbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 88817 80287
Details
SJ 88 SE PRESTBURY C.P. WILMSLOW ROAD (South Side)
2/223 Willot Hall
25/7/1952
GV II*
Formerly hall, then farmhouse, now house: later C15 with rewalling in stone C17 and repairs and additions in brick late C17. Major restoration and extension of solar dated 1939. Partly in coursed squared buff sandstone rubble, partly in English garden wall bond orange brick. Kerridge stone slate roof, stone ridge and 3 lateral chimneys. Originally rectangular in plan 2½ storey, 4-bay front to pre-1939 portion. Right 3 bays divided by buttresses have C20 3 and 4-light stone mullioned windows with hard moulds and C20 timber framed dormers with 3-light windows. To left solar is brick on rubble plinth. Plinth has 2 rubble hood moulds. Brick bands at 1st and 2nd floor. C20 chamfered stone doorcase contains moved original studded 5-board door with a 4-light C20 mullioned window to left. Above is a tall 4-light stone mullioned window with a pair of segmental brick heads above and a similar 3-light with painted leaded glazing in the stone-coped and ball finialled gable. To left are additions in style. Added to rear of hall is range in brick with tall stone mullioned windows, brick bands and lateral chimneys. Interior: Plan of hall, solar, screens passage and service rooms survives with some alterations, the hall having been re-opened to the roof. The spere truss and parts of the other trusses survive. These have arch-braced cambered tiebeams which carry a braced crown post which braces the collar purlin only. All the rafters are C20 replacements. The screen is timber framed with 3 rebated doorways and wattle and daub infill. A gallery has been created above with Jacobean panelling and all this feature may be reconstructed or moved. A door of 2 large and 2 small central panels all with raised fields, opens from the end of the screen's passage into an added kitchen with a large brick fireplace with timber fire beam and chamfered ceiling beams. A similar door opens into a pantry, and both rooms have diamond-shaped stone flag floors. The original hall may have been timber-framed for an arch braced length of wall plate survives in the hall.
Listing NGR: SJ8881780287
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 413844
- 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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