WINNINGTON HALL

WINNINGTON HALL, WINNINGTON LANE (EAST OF A533)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1310245
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: WINNINGTON HALL
Statutory Address:: WINNINGTON HALL, WINNINGTON LANE (EAST OF A533)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1310245
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: WINNINGTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: WINNINGTON HALL, WINNINGTON LANE (EAST OF A533)

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:: WINNINGTON HALL, WINNINGTON LANE (EAST OF A533)

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

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Northwich
National Grid Reference:: SJ 64505 74749

Details

SJ 67 SW NORTHWICH C.P. WINNINGTON LANE (East of A533)

4/45 Winnington Hall

24.3.50.

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Hall, "oak wing" circa. 1600 and stone wing and link to oak wing 1775 by Samuel Wyatt; restored by Darcy Braddell circa. 1920. Oak-framed entrance wing; brick staircase bay; ashlar wing; grey slate roofs. Oak-framed wing of 2 storeys plus attics and 5 gabled bays has small-framing with chevrons on rendered stone plinth; plaster panels; C19 oak-framed porch with double 3-panel oak doors; replaced casements; 3-storey bay with spire added right, with service wing with no features of special interest beyond; through its courtyard the 3-storey end-gable of the oak wing is visible. Brick stair bay, expressed as 3 storeys, has 9-pane recessed sashes. Rear of stone wing (formerly an orangery) has looped radial-bar lunettes and a venetian window. Stone wing of 2 storeys taller than those of oak wing has 5 bays, canted ends, plinth, 15-pane recessed sashes to lower storey with recessed panels containing festoons above and 9-pane recessed upper sashes. Miscellaneous chimneys. Interior: The oak wing is partly relined in manner of Wyatt's stone wing. Hall has Tuscan screen with 2 paired columns and antae; pilasters in corners; 6-panel mahogany doors; C19 (?) stone fireplace with iron grate in semi-circular alcove. Billiard room right has altered posts and ceiling; open well stair probably by Braddell leads to oak-panelled corridor and 1 oak-panelled room upstairs; the other rooms are altered, with coved ceilings. Behind hall in oak wing, lobby leads to former orangery in stone wing, octagon room and apsed dining and drawing rooms, all excellently proportioned and detailed; notable are the lunettes and vault in orangery, the apses and the octagon room. Left from lobby is stairwell containing geometrical stair with superimposed semicircular flights to 1st and 2nd landings; the 1st communicates (now through bathroom) to upper storey of oak wing; the 2nd to upper storey of stone wing.

Treuhertz and de Figueiredo The Country Houses of Cheshire (in progress).

Listing NGR: SJ6450574749

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Legacy System number:: 57640
Legacy System:: LBS

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Legal

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