Building record 111/2 - The Tricorn Public House - Former Stables

<1> Historic England, 2011, The National Heritage List for England, 1130426 (Web Site). SCH6528.

Former stables to Hallwood, circa 1710 now altered and part of licensed premises. Sandstone with slate roof 1½ storeys eight bays of varying width. Five giant Doric pilasters, two broken pedimented doorways, five sashes with moulded stone architraves, two large windows openings with Gothic heads, one now containing a double door, and six oval windows at high level. There is a band at pediment level and an eaves cornice.

<2> de Figueiredo P & Treuherz J, 1988, Cheshire Country Houses, p. 235 (Book). SCH785.

The stables are grander, the enlargement of a late medieval building they form a long narrow stone range with irregularly spaced giant pilasters, two pedimented doorways and first floor oval windows.

<3> Lichfields, 2023, Palacefields Regeneration, Local Centre Parcel: Desk-Based Assessment, R4687 (Client Report). SCH9415.

An archaeological desk-based assessment was produced in 2023 for land known as the Local Centre Parcel, Palacefields, Runcorn, prior to proposed development. The proposal includes partial demolition, alteration and refurbishment of the Grade II* Listed Tricorn Public House and the Grade II Listed stables. The study concludes that the archaeological potential of much of the site is limited, given the disturbance associated with the development of the area in the 1970s. However, there is potential for the survival of archaeological remains from the later medieval and the early post medieval periods focussed on the former Tricorn public house and associated stable block, which may have developed from an earlier medieval moated site, one arm of which survives to the south of the house and stable blocks.