Site Event/Activity record ECH6709 - The Old Hall, Nether Alderley, Cheshire: Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment

Archaeological desk-based assessment undertaken in 2018/19 for the Old Hall, Nether Alderley, in support of proposed refurbishment and extension. This manorial moated site was located in close proximity to the manorial mill and the historic church. The existing brick-built house comprised a number of post-medieval construction phases, and represented the surviving component of a large courtyard house, erected and extended in the 17th and 18th centuries by the Stanley family, and destroyed by fire in 1779. Subsequently, the house became a tenanted farmhouse, losing its manorial status. A number of associated farm buildings had been erected to the north of the moated site, but only one of these had survived, comprising a stable, which was originally timber-framed, but had been rebuilt in brick. (1)