Building record 14296 - Tarvin Hall, High Street, Tarvin

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

National Heritage List Description for Tarvin Hall: Formerly manor house, later school, now house: mid-late C18 (graffito date 1776 found during roof repairs) late C19 extension to rear. Flemish bond orange brick with painted stone dressings. Hipped Welsh slate roof of 2 parallel ranges. Brick chimneys. Double-pile plan. 3-storey symmetrical 3-bay east front. Moulded stone plinth, band at 1st floor and modillion cornice. End bays have Venetian windows on lower 2 floors with fine gauged and rubbed brick heads, semi-circular headed sashes above (all have lost glazing bars) central bay projects forward slightly under a low pediment. Ground storey stuccoed with Tuscan doorcase. 4-panelled door with a semi-circular fanlight and scrolled glazing bars that breaks the pediment. 1st floor window has a partial balustrade below an eared architrave with semi-circular head and a raised key block to plain sash. 4-pane sash above. Small 1-storey portion to the right carries a similar balustrade and contains a 12-pane sash. To left side are 2 added canted bays and extension to rear in Ruabon brick. Interior: Hall has panelled dado and simple wooden doorcases. Broad elliptical arch with panelled soffits on fluted pilasters leads to stairwell. Oak well staircase with curving mahogany handrail and fluted square balusters. Pierced and fluted brackets on open string, painted panelled dado with fluted pilasters on closed string. 6-panelled door flanked by quarter columns to rock cut cellar. Downstairs later basalt and marble fireplaces. Shouldered architraves to doors upstairs. Main room has Neo-Classical detailing. Doorcases have frieze of husks, broken pediments with central urn. Panelled dado carries fluted Corinthian pilasters. Ceiling frieze of husks and an ovolo and modillion cornice. Blocked fireplace with shouldered architrave.

The house formerly extended to left via a 1 storey portion to a large end pavilion with a lantern. The same decorative details were carried through.

<2> Castlering Archaeology, 2001, Tarvin Hall, High Street, Tarvin, Cheshire: Archaeological Building Assessment, R4155 (Client Report). SCH8453.

A rapid building assessment was undertaken in November 2001 at Tarvin Hall in advance of proposed redevelopment. The building and grounds of which are thought to be the most likely site for the medieval manor of Tarvin. The assessment examined the construction of the cellar of the Georgian building with a view to dating the fabric and assessing the consequence of redevelopment. The walls of the cellar were found to mirror the plan of the hall above. The building is constructed on sandstone bedrock with regular quarry cut sandstone foundations and brickwork above. All visible fabric appears to comply with the Georgian building and no evidence of medieval fabric was observed.