Listed Building: TABLEY OLD HALL (1139011)

SJ 77 NW TABLEY INFERIOR C.P. (Off) CHESTER ROAD 6/71 Tabley Old Hall G.V. II* House, now derelict. What still survives is the shell, c1670, of a house which contained a fine timber-framed hall of c1380 . Red English garden wall bond brick with stone dressings. 3 storeys. Entrance front: partial survival of E-shaped front. Central projecting stone porch with arched opening. 2 plain-shafted columns to left with Ionic capitals, standing on pedestals with lozenge-shaped panelling. Right hand pair of columns now missing but plinths and capitals remain. Dentil cornice above. First floor walling of brick with stone quoins: One 3-light mullioned window with hood mould. Blind second floor has oculus. The recessed wall to the left of this has now collapsed but the projecting wing to the left of that has a 4-light stone ovolo-mullioned basement window with 4-light ovolo mullioned and transomed ground floor window and 4-light mullioned window to first floor. To right of porch wing is a 4-light ovolo-mullioned window with a similar to first floor and oculus to second floor. Wing to right of this has stone quoins. 4-light mullioned windows to ground and first floors with oculus to second floor. The hall, remains of which now lie on the ground, is illustrated in Country Life for 14 July 1928. Listing NGR: SJ7197777382