Building record 131/3/1 - Great Moreton Hall

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

Country house. 1841-43. By Edward Blore for George Ackers. Coursed sandstone ashlar and snecked sandstone rubble with a slate roof. Two storeys with three and four-storey towers. Castellated Gothic. ( Full architectural description in List entry)

<2> Pevsner N & Hubbard E, 1971, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, /228-9 (Book). SCH3078.

Considered his most successful house

<3> Higham N J, 1984-9, Professor Nick Higham's Aerial Photographs, & 1988/1/4/32A (Aerial Photograph). SCH7659.

<4> Cheshire Gardens Trust, 2011 onwards, Research and Recording Report, Great Moreton Hall, 2019 (Report). SCH6655.

A new-build of 1841–46, Great Moreton Hall is Cheshire’s only complete and surviving ‘Castellated Gothic’ work by Edward Blore…. The estate’s own quarries on Mow Cop supplied the stone for the external walls.