Building record 14149 - Hartford Manor, Hartford

<1> Historic England, 2011, The National Heritage List for England (Web Site). SCH6528.

Hartford Manor, Grade II Listed. House, late C18, altered and extended; now office. Yellow ashlar with hipped grey slate roof. 2 storeys; 5 windows. The symmetrical front has slightly bowed central bay, projecting distyle Roman Doric portico with flat entablature and one 2-window room on each storey to each side. Curved hardwood double doors, each leaf having 3 fielded panels. Plinth with moulded top; plain 1st floor band; stone frieze and cornice at eaves. 3-pane sidelights to doorway with concave lozenges incised in stonework beneath; segmental fan-light with ornate iron bars; recessed sashes of 12 panes to lower storey and 9 panes to upper storey. The sash above the portico has moulded architrave with entablature on consoles. 3-window slightly recessed extension to right, 1940's, with fascimile windows anti detailing in stucco. Rear extensions of no interest. Interior: 3 good mahogany doors in hall, of 6 fielded panels with carved mouldings, with panelled cases and shouldered architraves; dogleg open-string stair with shaped brackets, swept mahogany rail and straight moulded balusters, some altered; 2 6-panel doors in panelled cases upstairs.

<2> Heritage Assessment Ltd, 2004, Hartford Manor House and Detached Outbuildings: Historical Assessment (Client Report). SCH8365.

Historic building survey, including photographs, undertaken at Hartford Manor in 2004.

<3> Garry Miller Historic Building Consultancy, 2017, Proposed Redevelopment at Hartford Manor, Hartford, Cheshire West and Chester: Heritage Assessment (Client Report). SCH8366.

Heritage assessment undertaken in 2017 for Hartford Manor in advance of proposed re-development into residential apartments, along with the demolition of associated semi-derelict outbuildings, and a large 1980s extension, and their replacement by a new housing development. Grade II Listed Georgian country mansion built probably in the late eighteenth century. Home of the Marshall industrialist family from 1774 to 1924 who were important figures in the Cheshire salt industry. Re-building of the house is said to have taken place in 1820 which tallies with its Neoclassical appearance. A service wing was attached to the rear of the house in the mid nineteenth century and a ballroom extension on the east side is thought to date from 1902. The property appears to have become offices by the mid twentieth century and was 'restored' in 1982, before it was listed; the large western extension dates to this time. Attached to the rear of the mansion is an L-shaped group of outbuildings, probably dating to the early-mid nineteenth century.