Building record 15771/1 - Lyme Green Hall, Sutton

<1> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 379/2, Sutton 1850 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

Plot named "Homestead and pleasure gardens. Buildings show with a garden plot with a driveway. Position of one of the buildings matches the modern footprint of Lyme Green Hall

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ9170, 1871-1891 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1911-1914, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 6 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ9170, 1909 (Maps and Plans). SCH3843.

House shown with same footprint as the tithe map.

<4> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58655 (Report). SCH1934.

Lyme Green Hall. Grade II listed.
Small country house. c.1912 with later additions and alterations of 1930's. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof with lead flashings. Two storeys with attic.

Entrance front: Three bays symmetrically disposed. Central later porch with moulded doorcase and moulded lugged surround having triple keystone which projects upwards through broken open pediment. Pilaster strips to sides and cyma-moulded coping.

Above this and to both floors at right and left are sash windows of 3 x 4 panes with wedge lintels carved in simulation of voussoir blocks with chamfered rustication and raised keystones. Ashlar sills to all these windows and all others on the house.

Two dormer attic windows of 2 casement lights with flat leaded roofs.

Two-bay addition at right with chamfered quoins and staircase sash windws of 3 x 7 panes starting at mezzanine level and extending through first floor. Voussoir blocks of ascending height with central chamfered keystones (a pattern common to all windows of the later building unless otherwise indicated).

Further projection to right of this of 2 bays with chamfered quoins, moulded cornice and sash windows of 3 x 5 panes to ground floor and 3 x 4 panes to first floor.

Garden front (all of later building): 9 bays. Projecting ashlar plinth. Chamfered quoins to corners and moulded cornice. Central 3-bay recessed portion with canted bay to ground floor with central sash window of 4 x 5 panes and windows to angles of 2 x 5 panes.

Wrought iron balcony railing above bay with window of 3 x 4 sash panes. Two-light dormer to attic. Angled bays to either side in re-entrant angles. These have doorways to ground floor with moulded surrounds including triple keystones, the central of which are very prominent. Segmental relieving arches over. Doorway at left is a recent replacement. That at right French windows each leaf of 2 x 5 panes.

Balconies above with wrought iron railings and stone platforms with similar French windows. Projecting 3-bay wings to either side, that at left having gound floor sash window of 3 x 5 panes and 2-bay projection to right with low sash windows of 3 x 6 panes with pilaster strips at sides.

<5> de Figueiredo P & Treuherz J, 1988, Cheshire Country Houses, p.251 (Book). SCH785.

An 18th century house of coursed rough stone with ashlar keystones, voussiers and long and short quoins. On one side is a large extension of the early 20th century in an exaggerated Lutyens-like version of the same style with bigger quoins, keystones and voussiers, and big scrolly chimneys. The extension forms an open courtyard and is flanked by two low pavilions, one an orangery. The hopper heads and balconies bear the monogram JBS for J bradley Smale, a macclesfield silk manufacturer. Now nursing home.

<6> The GeoInformation Group, 2005, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review (Aerial Photograph). SCH4608.

House and garden extended from earlier footprint. Outbuildings to north of the plot mach those shown on the 19th century maps

<7> Ordnance Survey, 2017-, Ordnance Survey Digital Mapping (vector), 7/02/2023 (Maps and Plans). SCH8429.

Main building arranged around courtyard as described in (5)