Site Event/Activity record ECH3658 - An Archaeological Evaluation at Old Hall Farm, Little Stanney, Ellesmere Port

An archaeological evaluation was undertaken at Old Hall Farm, Little Stanney, Ellesmere Port (SJ 4132 7416) in November and December 1996, prior to a programme of conversion and extension. The re-development site is located within a former moated enclosure on which stood Stanney Old Hall, the main seat of the Bunbury family from the mid-fourteenth to mid-nineteenth century. Three evaluation trenches were excavated. Medieval and post medieval features and deposits were observed but no positive trace of the Old Hall was encountered. Parts of timber structures, dating probably to the late medieval and post medieval periods were recorded, but these were considered to be associated with ancilliary buildings. The remains of the earlier hall potentially lie beneath the present building. The line of the south arm of the moat was identified but the results indicate that it was cleared out during the eighteenth century and this appears to have removed trace of the earlier moat circuit. (1)