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Wardle Old Hall

A Grade II* Listed Building in Wardle, Cheshire East

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1099 / 53°6'35"N

Longitude: -2.5813 / 2°34'52"W

OS Eastings: 361183

OS Northings: 357130

OS Grid: SJ611571

Mapcode National: GBR 7Q.83HW

Mapcode Global: WH9B3.B315

Plus Code: 9C5V4C59+XF

Entry Name: Wardle Old Hall

Listing Date: 10 June 1952

Last Amended: 3 August 1984

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1312857

English Heritage Legacy ID: 56838

ID on this website: 101312857

Location: Wardle, Cheshire East, Cheshire, CW5

County: Cheshire East

Civil Parish: Wardle

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Bunbury St Boniface

Church of England Diocese: Chester

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Description


SJ 65 NW WARDLE C.P. WARDLE

3/79 Wardle Old Hall

10 June 1952

GV II*

Originally a farmhouse now a private house, early C18. Red brick in Flemish Bond with slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Ogee moulded stone plinth. Giant Doric pilasters to quoins and flanking the central entrance bay. The entrance has a stone doorcase, eared top and bottom, a keystone with foliage motif, a pulvinated frieze -and pediment with dentil cornice. This contains a four panel door with lower panels raised and fielded and upper panels glazed. Slightly recessed sashes with stone sills and sunk brick panel below, glazing bars and gauged skewback flat heads. The centre bay, first floor, window has stone key with grain motif. Moulded stone gutter cornice between the pilaster caps which have triglyphs and guttae. The roof has lead hips and two symetrically placed stacks with arch-headed sunken panels. There are built-up window openings in the north and south gables. At the rear (east) there is a 2-storey, 2-bay wing of red brick with roof of large slates; the ridge of this section is at main house eaves level. Interior: The rear wing has chamfered beams and exposed ceiling joists also original roof trusses. There are wide three-panel doors in the main building on unusual "H" hinges with a single long leg. Graded II* for the high quality of the Baroque facade.

Listing NGR: SJ6118357130

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