Listed Building: BEWSEY OLD HALL (1230619)

SJ 58 NE BURTONWOOD C.P. BEWSEY 3/2 Bewsey Old Hall 4/12/1951 GV II* Hall, late C16, C17, C19 and early C20, restored (with some rebuilding) late C20. The present building is a fragment of the former Hall, of which archaeological and documentary evidence extends to C13. Stone-dressed small brown brick in irregular English garden wall bond; grey slate roofs. L-shaped with projecting south cross-wing. Edwardian facsimile 2-storey Tudor porch in north end. Fenestration of lower 2 storeys of east front is Edwardian replacement in late C16 manner of previously inserted Georgian fenestration: 2 full-height openings to each wing of lower storey; two 6-pane facsimile casements to each wing of 2nd storey. The 3rd storey has restored windows of early C17 type with recessed mullions and transomes, of 8 lights to front of cross-wing returning (as a half bay window) with 3 lights to north side of cross-wing; 4-light mullioned and transomed window to north wing. Stepped flush-mullioned window to former attic in cross-wing has 1 upper and 3 lower lights. In south side of cross-wing is a 3-light recessed mullioned and transomed window to lower storey with 4-light mullioned window to left. Stone quoins suggest that 3-light window replaces one similar to that at right. Brick label to 4-light window and fragment of left end of label above blocked quoins. Two 4-light recessed mullioned windows to 2nd storey; 2 4-light recessed mullioned and transomed windows to 3rd storey. The front 2 metres of the cross-wing are a little later than the rest. Moulded stone strings at 1st and 2nd floors to front and older part of side of cross-wing. Part of stone plinth. The cross-wing had a south-east corner stair turret, demolished. A blocked window-opening in the 2nd storey and a blocked doorway in 3rd storey between wing and former turret. Cyma stone coping and ball finial to gable. Chimney of brick on ridge of north wing opposite north wall of cross-wing has 5 separated diagonal flues. North end-gable has a blocked skew-back arched sash-window opening to each of 2 lower storeys and a 5-light recessed mullioned and transomed window with lattice leads to 3rd storey. Coped gable with ball finial. The Edwardian Tudor porch has replaced prison-nailed double doors with 4-light recessed mullioned window above containing leaded glazing of polygonal and square panes. Kitchen wing of 1 storey south of main building (linked by passage) is C19, in keeping, with late C20 restoration and embellishment. Interior. Victorian stair of 1 flight with winders at foot in north wing; broad blocked C18 basket-arched opening at rear of cross-wing (now against east wall of Bewsey Old Hall Farmhouse, q.v.) The room in 2nd storey of north wing has 2 Tudor-arched openings to cross-wing; the embrasures and chamfers suggest that the cross-wing was the earlier or "interior" chamber. The wall between the wings is 1 metre thick. Oak stud wattle-and-daub partition between front and rear parts of cross-wing; one ovolo beam above each room; C16/C17 painting "On plaster reveals. 3rd storey has altered oak roof structure. Fragments of painting in rear room and in fireplace reveals. Much internal reconstruction in modern brick. Listing NGR: SJ5907089572