CHORLTON OLD HALL

CHORLTON OLD HALL, CHORLTON LANE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

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

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places. Almost 350,000 photos and stories have been added so far.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 1999-09-01
Reference:: IOE01/01774/13
Rights:: © Mr Michael J Tuck. Source: Historic England Archive

Local Heritage Hub

Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.

Discover more

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1330594
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:: CHORLTON OLD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: CHORLTON OLD HALL, CHORLTON 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.