Monument record 5048 - Adlington Hall Mews

Formerly coach house and stables, now 8 flats: dated 1749, built for Charles Legh and converted 1971-4. Flemish bond red brick with ashlar buff sandstone dressings. Kerridge stone-slate hipped roof, stone ridge. 2-storey symmetrical 9-bay south front. Stone band at ground storey sill level and a modillion cornice. Central 3 bays step forward under a triangular pediment and are divided by giant order Tuscan pilasters, supporting plain stone frieze. Central large semi-circular headed coach entrance has keystone with datestone and Legh monogram. Bays to either side have 6-pane windows under flat wedged channelled heads below, 4-pane above. Circular light in stone surround in pediment. Similar 4 and 6-pane windows in remaining bays except for 2 with iron balconies. Motifs continue in short ranges to rear. There is a mounting block of 4 stone steps and a brick core in front of coach entrance.
This was the earliest of Charles Legh's classical brick buildings and dominates the old south approach which ran from the Pillars (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ9054980441

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Digital Archive). SCH4666.