Monument record 1404/2/4 - Garden Wall and Gate Pier

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58296 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Corner pier and garden wall: partly seventeenth century, partly mid eighteenth century. Ashlar buff sandstone and some English garden wall bond red brick. Chamfered rusticated gate pier on moulded plinth with a projecting moulded capstone and a stepped top. The pier stands on the corner of the stone garden wall on Congleton Road. The pier is ivy clad and is said to have the Stanley crest. For 15m north and to the east is the original stone garden wall. To the east this changes to a eventeenth century brick wall with stone coping. Where it joins the Mill dam wall is a small gate, with a truncated stone pier, T-shape in plan with ovolo-mouldings on the corner. These are the remains of grand gardens, walls and bridges that were in front of the major extensions of the Old Hall built in 1754 by Sir Edward Stanley, destroyed by fire in 1779 and subsequently demolished.

<2> de Figueiredo P & Treuherz J, 1988, Cheshire Country Houses, p.21 (Book). SCH785.

Reproduces an illustration of the house including the gardens, wall and gate.