Building record 15919 - The Bents

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58266 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

House: late sixteenth early seventeenth century with eighteenth century brickwork. Major sympathetic reconstruction underway when viewed. Timber framed with wattle and daub infill on ashlar and rubble plinth. Facade in English garden wall bond brick. Kerridge stone-slate roof. L-shaped plan of small hall and solar. Much of original timber framing intact. Left side has a five-light wood mullioned window with a coved overhang in a gabled dormer.

Interior: Chamfered firebeam on chamfered heckpost. Chamfered ceiling beams with a flat stop. Solar had a fireplace with wattle and daub hood of which traces remain. Tiebeam and collar roof trusses.

<2> Oxford Archaeology North, 2006, Adlington to Lower House Pipeline, Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire: Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment, p.9, p.11 no.02 (Client Report). SCH4684.

"...in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries a number of medieval halls in the region were remodelled or replaced, as part of a wider process known as the 'Great Rebuilding'. In the seventeenth century, this process was also having an effect further down the social scale, resulting in the building of new 'yeoman houses' by tenant farmers, several of which survive within the study area..."

<3> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, vol.I p.206 (Book). SCH3228.

The first documentary reference to The Bent dates from 1505, though there are references to Bent Meadowe dating from 1437 and 1500.

<4> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 293/2, 1850 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

The building is located within a small sub-circular enclosure with a pond on the north-eastern side. Described as two cottages and gardens.