Listed Building: CHURCH HALL (1216836)

SJ 87 NW NETHER ALDERLEY C.P. CHURCH DRIVE 4/118 Church Hall [formerly listed as Parish Hall (Old School)] 14/4/1967 GV II* Formerly school, now church hall and parish council chamber: dated 1628 for Hugh Shaw, addition to rear dated 1817 for Rev. Edward Stanley. Ashlar red sandstone. Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge and 1 brick chimney. Originally rectangular in plan now L-shaped. 1½-storey, 3-bay north front. Left end bay has a studded oak board door under a wooden lintel approached by 5-steps. Central bay has a rebated 4-light chamfered stone mullioned window with a similar 3-light in a stone coped and column finialled gabled half dormer. To right is a bead-moulded doorcase with a heavy cambered lintel containing a studded, 3-board oak door with iron strap hinges. Above plaque reads "Mr Hugh Shaw Clerk built this School Ano 1628. Mr Thomas Deane de Park Endowed it Jany 30th 1694". Similar 4 and 5-light mullions in the gable end. To right and set back is part of additional range on stone plinth and with a projecting band at 1st floor and a 3-light chamfered stone mullion in 1st storey below a small coped gable containing the date plaque. Square wooden bellcote on ridge with shaped lead roof and ball finial. Interior: in the original the schoolroom was above and the master's house below. Chamfered ceiling beam with flat and tongue stop and studded 8-board door with cambered wooden lintel between old and new portions. Very heavy roof timbers visible in old schoolroom. Addition has some panelling from the church. Listing NGR: SJ8417876108