Building record 798/3 - Whatcroft Hall Lodges

<1> Vale Royal Borough Council, 2006, Vale Royal Borough Council's List of Locally Important Buildings (Report). SCH5487.

<2> Vale Royal Borough Council, 1977-79, The Vale Royal Borough Council Historic Buildings Survey Index Card, HB/6 (Paper Archive). SCH5481.

Whatcroft Hall Lodge, Whatcroft. Mock Tudor designed house. Victorian. Looks more recent than the Hall itself. Possible added when extensions were done to the Hall in Victorian times.

<3> Cheshire Gardens Trust, 2011 onwards, Research and Recording Report, Whatcroft Hall (2017) p.5 (Report). SCH6655.

There are two approaches to Whatcroft Hall. The principal historic approach to the eighteenth century Hall appears to have been from Shipbrook via Manor Lane and Lodge Bridge over the Trent and Mersey Canal and through the parkland to the arrival space by the north entrance. There are two lodges on the eastern side of the canal; ‘the Lodge’ north of the drive, an early lodge in approximately this location is shown on the Tithe Map (see 4), and Gate Lodge to the south, post 1910 and extended in recent years (see 7). Photos 1 and 2 in report.

<4> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 354/2 c.1840 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

Depicts the lodge north of the drive.

<5> Greenwood, C. & Greenwood J., 1819, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2115.

Records a lodge at this location.

<6> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

Records a lodge at this location.

<7> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ6770, 1909 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

First map to depict Gate Lodge, suggesting a construction date of between 1898 and 1909.