Conservation Area: Tattenhall Conservation Area (023)

Key Features of the Conservation Area General: strong rural and agricultural setting, busy shopping centre with traditional shops along High Street Topography: generally flat except a gentle slope leading to Mill Brook and reversing to lead slowly again in front of Tattenhall Hall. Rocky Lane and Bolesworth Road located on a hill. Streetscape: extended main street with secondary roads crossing it Built environment: varied residential units built between 16th century and the present, two storeys high, pitched slate and clay tile roofs, brick walls often with Flemish bond brickwork using header and stretcher bricks of contrasting and complimentary colours, some remaining timber framed buildings, sash windows. Buildings and their setting: varying set backs between highway and houses, often with buildings slightly elevated above street level Boundary treatments: significant low to medium sandstone and brick walls, sometimes with fine curved coping stones. Historic floor surfaces: significant cobble stone pavement along and between some properties on High Street south. Open spaces: Primary School Park, Recreation Ground (south of High Street), Millbrook pond (south of High Street). Trees and hedgerows: important hedgerows and mature trees along secondary lanes leading to Tattenhall (Rocky Lane, Bolesworth Road, Frog Lane, Chester Road, Burwardsley Road). Other: significant residential developments built within the conservation area boundaries since the last conservation area assessment (1996).