Building record 263/1/1 - Stoke Hall, Stoke Hall Lane

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 57002 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Mansion of early nineteenth century appearance but with early seventeenth century origins. Red brick, in Flemish Bond, with slate roof. Three-storey, five-bay Garden Front, two storey eight-bay Entrance Front (north) completing an "L" shaped plan. Four-panel oak door, with lead-glazed side and overlights, in inset porch with ovolo moulded plinth blocks, plain stone pilasters, moulded responds, semi-circular archivolt, with keystone and ogee cornice with dentils. Stone plinth and three-course-deep brick window-head-level string courses. Recessed sashes with stone sills, glazing bars and wedge lintels or flat gauged skewback arches - in the three-storey gable. There is a blocked oculus at first floor level and a brick dentil course at eaves. The garden front (west) has a half-glazed door in a doorcase with tapering fluted pilasters, triglyth dosserets, radial bar fanlight and open pediment. Recessed sashes with stone sills, glazing bars and gauged flat arches ground and first floor, two-light flush casements at second floor level. The three-storey section has old slates laid with diminishing courses and lead hips, the slates on the two storey Entrance Front are later. Tall two-to-three-flue stacks with projecting blue brick caps.

Interior: The Oak Room, in the three-storey section of the house, has two moulded beams, carried by moulded consoles, and exposed ovolo-moulded joists. There is an eleven-panel oak door and four-panels-high oak wall panelling. The moulded stone fireplace has an oak chimney piece, divided into three raised panels by four oak columns and surmounted by a moulded cornice. The Stair Hall has two panels high oak dado panelling and a staircase with cut and bracketed string turned balusters and square newels. There are ovolo moulded beams in the study and large ovolo moulded beams and exposed ceiling joists in the kitchen. A room on the north side of the house has cased beams with dentil cornices. There are a number of six-panel doors.

<2> Burdett, P. P., 1777, A Survey of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH113.

"Stokehall" is marked on this map with a building shown

<3> Swire, W. & Hutchings, W. F., 1830, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2116.

"Stoke Hall" is marked on this map with a cluster of separate buildings at the end of a short road

<4> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

"Stoke Hall" marked on this map with a dispersed group of buildings an L shaped road.

<5> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 373/2 Stoke 1841 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

Stoke Hall shown to the west of the access road. Additional buildings shown to the east. Plot name "House, Building, Yards etc"