Site Event/Activity record ECH7181 - Palacefields Regeneration, Local Centre Parcel: Desk-Based Assessment

An archaeological desk-based assessment was produced in 2023 for land known as the Local Centre Parcel, Palacefields, Runcorn, prior to proposed development. The proposal includes partial demolition, alteration and refurbishment of the Grade II* Listed Tricorn Public House and the Grade II Listed stables. The study concludes thata the archaeological potential of much of the site is limited, given the disturbance associated with the development of the area in the 1970s. However, there is potential for the survival of archaeological remains from the later medieval and the early post medieval periods focussed on the former Tricorn public house and associated stable block, which may have developed from an earlier medieval moated site, one arm of which survives to the south of the house and stable blocks. (1)