Building record 1406/1 - Soss Moss Hall

Soss Moss Hall, Nursery Lane. Formerly manor house, later Stanley estate farm, now house. Dated 1583 for TWyche, extended early C17 with C20 alterations. Timber-framed partly plastered infill, partly brick nogged, partly repaired in brick on sandstone plinth. Stone-slate roof. Triple gabled N front. Left end replaced in brick, but herringboning survives in gable. Central portion set back with 5x5 timber small frames with ovolo-moulded wooden doorcase. To right small panelling with chevron & cross motif decoration. Herringbone in 3 gables. Small former dairy added right.
Internal: kitchen has chamfered, cambered wooden lintel to large stone fireplace. Chamfered ceiling beams with flat steps. Room was Nether Alderley's Methodist Chapel 1835-1940. Hall has 2 ovolo-moulded ceiling beams on inglenook stone fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel. Dogleg staircase. Upstairs 2 chamfered stone fireplaces with cambered lintels. Stone chimney contains garderobes. House said to be blt on oak piles & consequently there are no cellars. Full architectual description (1). During construction work 1847 discovery of a paInternaling on stone of figures in long flowing robes. Similar paInternaling over fireplace under the room containing the garderobes (2).
A brass tablet in the kitchen records the use of the room a a Methodist New Connexion preaching-place from 1835 to 1940 (3).

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /4/149 (Report). SCH1934.

<2> Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883 -, Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, l/12-17 Brooke R 1849 (Journal/Periodical). SCH3293.

<3> Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME), 1994, An Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in the North of England, Cheshire Number 108 (Book). SCH4548.