Listed Building: TATTENHALL HALL (1230476)

SJ 45 NE TATTENHALL C.P. HIGH STREET (South Side) 5/105 Tattenhall Hall. (formerly listed under 1/3/1967 Tattenhall High Street) GV II* Manor house: early Cl7 for Sir Richard Bostock, interior altered 1858 for Robert Barbour. English garden wall bond orange brick with buff sandstone dressings. Welsh slate roof, 1 lateral brick chimney and 3 brick ridge chimneys with diamond stacks. H-shaped plan. 2 and 3-storey, 5-bay front. Moulded stone plinth, stone quoins and stone-coped gables on kneelers with turned finials. Right end bay projects under gable and has a 6-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed window divided by a king mullion and under a hood mould, below; similar 4-light above under a flat hood and a 4-light in the gable. BB CE 1712 graffito on a quoin. 4th bay is recessed with similar 6-light window to hall below and a 2 and 4-light mullioned and transomed window above. Remaining 3 bays project under a gable. The plinth is stepped and there is a mixture of 2, 3, 4 and 6-light mullioned and transomed windows. To right side of this projection is a moulded stone doorcase with a mid C19 restored studded oak board door. Fenestration and doorcases complete, though some blocked, on remaining sides. Interior: Plan of service rooms, simple cross-passage, hall and extensive solar wing intact but fittings nearly all of 1858. Some Jacobean panelled window seats and wainscotting, (all re-used for doors). Passage has an original strapwork and figured iron grille in ceiling and service rooms have bead-moulded beams. On documentary evidence the house was constructed before 1622 making it an early and complete example of a brick building in Cheshire. Listing NGR: SJ4863358204