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Toad Hall (Including the Old Medicine Hall)

A Grade II Listed Building in Goostrey, Cheshire East

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2317 / 53°13'54"N

Longitude: -2.3175 / 2°19'3"W

OS Eastings: 378901

OS Northings: 370565

OS Grid: SJ789705

Mapcode National: GBR 003.GWH

Mapcode Global: WH99N.C1NB

Plus Code: 9C5V6MJJ+MX

Entry Name: Toad Hall (Including the Old Medicine Hall)

Listing Date: 14 February 1967

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1231130

English Heritage Legacy ID: 406176

ID on this website: 101231130

Location: Blackden Heath, Cheshire East, Cheshire, CW4

County: Cheshire East

Civil Parish: Goostrey

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Goostrey St Luke

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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Description


GOOSTREY C.P. BLACKDEN
SJ 77 SE

2/23 Toad Hall (including the
Old Medicine House)
14.2.67

- II

Cottage late C16 with C20 link to circa 1600 house which was removed
from Wrinehill in Staffordshire and re-erected here 1972. Toad Hall
is brickwork and brick nogged timber framing, formerly thatched now
with corrugated sheet roof. 2 storeys and loft. 4 truss-bays. 17
small framing panels in length and 4 panels wide, central outshut 3
panels long by 2 panels wide at the rear (north). Angle braces,
middle rails continuous in C16 style. Replaced casements set in frame
panels. Front wall (south) and gable-end rebuilt in brickwork. Gable
barge boards, gable and central ridge stacks.
Interior: Stone slab floor. Wide boarded doors on strap hinges with
wooden latches. Three steeply pitched upper crucks with base ties,
these accommodate a sleeping loft within their height. Chamfered
purlins, wind braces, old thatch rafters.
The Old Medicine House is timber framed with plastered panels and
tiled roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. A rear 1-bay wing (east) completes a
"T" shaped plan. Close studding, much of it replaced, with single
middle rails ground floor and first floor, angle braces. Sandstone
plinth. Wide boarded replaced door in Tudor arch headed opening.
Mullion windows with 5-or-6 narrow lights. Cove-jettied gables with
chevron infilling. Large half-dormer, fixed off centre, on west side.
Low timber roof louvre.
Interior: Axial firehood to fireplace heating two rooms, with moulded
beam on north side. Ogee door heads. Chamfered ceiling beams and
explosed joists. Internal window, with diamond mullions, in wall
common to the added late C17 one bay east wing. Ovolo moulded
surrounds to fireplace and door openings at first floor level.
Exposed ridge tree and purlins with wind braces. The brick and glass
unit, with tile roof, which links the two buildings is of no special
interest.


Listing NGR: SJ7890170565

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