CHORLTON OLD HALL

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1330594
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1967
Statutory Address:
CHORLTON OLD HALL, CHORLTON LANE

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHORLTON OLD HALL, CHORLTON LANE

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

District:
Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Chorlton
National Grid Reference:
SJ 45936 48203

Details

SJ 44 NE CHORLTON CHORLTON LANE (East side) 4/3 1.3.67 Chorlton Old Hall 11*

House. 1666 with additions to rear and alterations. Red-brown brick, slate roof. 2½ storeys, T-plan. 4 bays with projecting right hand bay with shaped gable and smaller projecting entrance bay with similar gable. Rectangular timber casements, mostly replaced, in cambered openings and with tile cills. Blocked opening with cambered head at attic level in right hand bay, 2 added dormers to 1st and 3rd bays. Replaced studded front door, with original behind. Chamfered stone plinth, 1st floor dentillated band, brick parapet with stone coping at left side gable. Brick stacks, one projecting beyond left side, one set to rear of central ridge and with 3 diagonally set flues. Small blocked openings with arched heads at 1st floor on right hand side. Interior: Studded door with iron fittings has inscription "In the time of Owen Clutton 1666 AC" above it. Stop chamfered beams. Inglenook. Close string stair has flat pierced balusters, moulded rail and square moulded newels, that at bottom bears Clutton arms. Ormerod, Pevsner and Hubbard.

Listing NGR: SJ4593648203

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
55143
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.

End of official listing

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Date: 01 Sep 1999
Reference: IOE01/01774/13
Rights: Copyright IoE Mr Michael J Tuck. Source Historic England Archive
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