Listed Building: HULME HALL (1160324)

ALLOSTOCK C.P. HULME HALL LANE SJ 77 SW 2/6 Hulme Hall 3 January 1967 GV II* Farmhouse with C15 origins, C17 and C19 alterations and additions. Brown brick with stone slate and Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys and attic and 2 storeys. Asymmetrical plan. Entrance front (north-east) three gabled bays. Garden Front (north-west) 5 bays with the two south-west bays stepped back in two stages. The south-east highest section of the farmhouse appears externally to be the oldest for it is in C17 style brickwork with projecting brick plinth and stone coping with kneelers. The windows generally are 2-to-3-light casements with stone sills and cambered arches. The Entrance Front door is ledged and battened on strap hinges and there is a four-panel half glazed door, in an added lean-to porch to the garden front. There are gable-end stacks to the C17 section and barge boards to the entrance front gables. Interior: The Entrance Hall contains a massive moulded spine beam intersecting two deep cambered beams one of which is moulded and the other plain, carried by a wall. There are exposed beams in the Dining Room and other rooms in the C17 section of the house. Ledged and battened doors on strap hinges. The staircase has splat balusters and there are C17 style doors at first floor level. Some original roof timbers visible in the attic. The house is surrounded by a moat. Listing NGR: SJ7247272379