Description

DARNHALL C.P. WEAVER HALL LANE
SJ 66 SE
8/23 Weaver Hall Farmhouse
(formerly listed as
16.4.81 Weaver Hall, Swanlowe
Lane)

- II
Farmhouse. Mid/Late C17 with C19 additions and alterations. Red
Flemish bond brick with slate roof (previously stone slates). Three
storeys with attic. H-shaped plan. Entrance front: projecting
gabled wing to left which has bands of 3 bricks depth between the
floors and two 2-light windows to each floor with wedge-shaped brick
lintels all blocked save for those to left of first and second floors,
that at first floor level having been widened. Porthole window to
gable. To the right of this is the recessed portion which with the
right hand wing was refaced in C19 brick. C19 porch in left hand
re-entrant angle and two 3-light cambered headed windows to right of
this. Similar fenestration to first and second floors and similar
3-light windows to ground, first and second floors of right-hand wing.
Rear: One timber post showing to right hand re-entrant angle.
Interior: Baffle entry with chamfered bressumer to ingle nook in
parlour. Chamfered end-stopped ceiling beams to ground floor rooms.
Roof trusses of queen posts with cambered ties and collars and arched
wind braces.

Source: George Ormerod - History of the County Palatine and City of
Chester 1819 which contains an engraving of the house before
its C19 refacing.

Listing NGR: SJ6696064328

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Weaver Hall, Darnhall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7978352

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014