Building record 1484/1/2 - Formal Gardens at Hawthorn Hall

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 414651 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Formerly hall, dated 1698 for John Leigh but traces of earlier timber-framed core. From south-east and north-east corners of house run intact brick garden walls with stone coping, each with a rusticated gate surround, one with scrolled tops, one with curlicues. At each corner with the house is a pine cone finial.

<2> de Figueiredo P & Treuherz J, 1988, Cheshire Country Houses, p.239 (Book). SCH785.

The cupola was a fashionable feature for the period, and it enabled views of the once extensive formal gardens which are now lost to suburban development.

<3> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Turner R C (undated) (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

These features derived from a walled formal garden which was laid out in a square around Hawthorn Hall. A bird's eye view of this garden of early eighteenth century date is included in the print collection of Mr A Waterworth, Crewood Hall, Kingsley.