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Chorlton Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Backford, Cheshire West and Chester

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2392 / 53°14'21"N

Longitude: -2.8891 / 2°53'20"W

OS Eastings: 340756

OS Northings: 371725

OS Grid: SJ407717

Mapcode National: GBR 8Z8Z.9J

Mapcode Global: WH881.LVF3

Plus Code: 9C5V64Q6+M8

Entry Name: Chorlton Hall

Listing Date: 20 December 1983

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1130682

English Heritage Legacy ID: 55393

Also known as: Chorlton Hall, Backford

ID on this website: 101130682

Location: Backford, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH2

County: Cheshire West and Chester

Civil Parish: Backford

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Backford St Oswald

Church of England Diocese: Chester

Tagged with: English country house

Description


SJ 47SW CHORLTON-BY-BACKFORD C.P. CHORLTON LANE

4/10 Chorlton Hall

II

House remodelled 1846/7 incorporating farmhouse and early C19th house. Gothic revival style. Rendered, slate roof, rendered stacks, stone plinth. 2½ storeys, 5 windows, central bay has 3 windows, projecting gabled bay at each side has one. Central bay sashes with glazing bars partly reusing those of original house have stone cills and 1846/7 hood moulds at 1st and 2nd floor. 1st floor windows have stone aprons. Shaped gablet over attic windows similar to shaped gables and all are above arrow slits. Gabled bays each have 1st floor oriel with sashes with glazing bars, above ground floor coat of arms with motto 'In veritate Victoria' of Wicksted Swan family. Canted porch below 3rd window of central bay has moulded parapet and sashes with glazing bars and hood moulds in each side panel. Central double doors with long glazed panels have a four-centred arch head below rectangular hood mould. C18th iron lantern. Angles are stop chamfered. Stone gable parapets. Interior: Doors of 6 panels, 2 doors with 5 raised and fielded panels, but most is mid C19th. Jacobean style plastered dining room ceiling, Gothic drawing room frieze and cornice, and pine open string staircase with moulded balusters and newels. Pevsner & Hubbard. Hess T., Watkin D.,A History of Chorlton Hall near Chester. (1979).

Listing NGR: SJ4075671725

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