Site Event/Activity record ECH6052 - Davenport Hall- Research and Recording

Research and recording carried out by the Cheshire Gardens Trust at Davenport Hall Summary Medieval to Jacobean times: Manor of one of Cheshire’s leading families. The core of the old hall appears to remain extant; parts may date back to the C15. The building is not listed by English Heritage or noted by historians of architecture. 1676 - c.1923: For 250 years Davenport Hall was not inhabited by its owners but was maintained and leased out as ‘the residence of a gentleman’s family’1. Thus, the site escaped the radical alterations and landscape improvements undertaken during the C18 and C19 by the owners of neighbouring estates. There appears to have been no major change to the layout of the associated landscape and small gardens until the 1990s, when the hall was extended, its gardens re-designed and a cascade of 7 ponds created E of the hall. Principal remaining features Unconfirmed