Site Event/Activity record ECH7138 - Calveley Hall- Research and Recording

Significance The significance of the gardens of Calveley Hall lies principally in their potential to reveal archaeological evidence and yield information about the 17th century garden associated with the Hall. There are few gardens of this period in Cheshire, which is recorded in the 1822 Terrier of Handley, and from which with garden walls and fine gate piers survive. Principal remaining features Calveley Hall – Grade II**, on Historic England ‘At Risk’ Register 20221 Gate piers and front garden walls – Grade II Barns and outbuildings Calveley Hall Cottages Hall and gardens The Hall and garden areas are in a state of disrepair; the gardens are overgrown and sections of the garden walls are broken. The gate piers, with a Greek cross plan, are capped by large ball finials remain but the gates are missing. There is no trace of the designed landscape depicted on the terrier maps of 1822; only the fine gate piers and sections of the walls remain. Calveley Hall Cottages north of the Hall are occupied and the gardens maintained