Norcliffe Hall

NORCLIFFE HALL, ALTRINCHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1222267
Date first listed:
06-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
Norcliffe Hall
Statutory Address:
NORCLIFFE HALL, ALTRINCHAM ROAD
Norcliffe Hall. A large house, built in 1831 for Robert Hyde Greg.
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Date:
2004-03-02
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1222267
Date first listed:
06-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:
Norcliffe Hall
Statutory Address 1:
NORCLIFFE HALL, ALTRINCHAM 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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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:
NORCLIFFE HALL, ALTRINCHAM ROAD

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

District:
Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Styal
National Grid Reference:
SJ 82898 83501

Details

SJ 88 SW WILMSLOW FORMER U.D. ALTRINCHAM ROAD (South Side) Styal

1/266 Norcliffe Hall

6/3/1975

GV II

Large house, 1831 for Robert Hyde Greg. Flemish bond orange brick, pink sandstone dressings. Welsh slate roof and brick chimneys with octagonal stacks. Elizabethan style. Irregular plan. 2½-storey, 4-bay south front. Stone plinth, quoins, copings and corbelled out finials. The windows are a mixture of 2 and 3-light stone mullioned or mullioned and transomed, some with lozenge glazing bars and a canted 2-storey stone bay window in 3rd bay. Stone string below blocking course with loopholes and gabled dormers. Porch in east front has Greg arms above door. In north side is a 4-stage lookout tower with 2-light round headed windows under label moulds, corbelled turrets in each corner and a lead cupola roof. Interior: Hall has wainscotting with diamond shaped panels. Panelled ceiling with plastered beams and heraldic bosses. Room to right has panelled ceilings with RHG monograms. Stairwell has arcade of 3, 4-centred arches, a turned column oak stair with square newels. Greg arms motto and monograms in stained glass. Drawing and dining room also with panelled ceilings and heavy oak doorcases and doors throughout.

Listing NGR: SJ8289883501

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
414386
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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