Description

SJ 87 NW NETHER ALDERLEY C.P. CONGLETON ROAD
(East Side)

4/128 The Old Hall

14/4/1967

GV II*

Manor house: early-mid C17 for Sir Thomas Stanley II with earlier
fragments and addition and alterations of 1912 by Edmund Warre of
London; English garden wall bond red brick with some purple bands.
Buff sandstone dressings, Kerridge stone-slate roof and 3 brick
chimneys, 2 with diamond shaped end stacks. Rectangular plan. 2 and
3-storey, 3-bay south front. Projecting stone band at 1st floor.
Central bay of 3-storeys has rebated 5-light chamfered stone mullioned
windows in ground and 1st storey and similar 3-light under a hood
mould in a stone-coped and ball finialled gable. To left is a bead
moulded stone doorcase with a cambered lintel and a 3-light window
above. To right is a C20 door. Additions in ashlar to west are of
1912.
Interior: Main room has light oak wainscotting (probably 1912) and
2-panelled doors with large diamonds in each panel. Heavy chamfered
ceiling beams. Remainder of interior unexceptional.
What survives is an addition to the earliest hall of C16. A major
Baroque front of 1754 was destroyed by fire in 1779 and demolished and
this led to the building of the now demolished Alderley Park. The Old
Hall stands in a decorative moat made by adding an arm to the mill
pond in the late C16.

Listing NGR: SJ8436376304

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Alderley Old Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4713681

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)