Monument record 2060/1/1 - Site of Poynton Hall or Poynton Towers

<1> Harris J, 1979, The Artist and the Country House: A History of Country House and Garden View Painting in Britain, 1540-1870, p.1206 (Book). SCH3049.

Poynton Hall later known as Poynton Towers, is depicted in a c.1780 painting by Thomas Stringer. It is depicted as being surrounded by a moat. The right hand part of the house is shown as having richly decorated timber framing with a Renaissance brick porch at the centre constructed c.1620. The left hand part is an early eighteenth century addition. Two seventeenth century castellated banqueting houses, added c.1670, stand in corners of the moat.

<2> Shercliff W H, Kitching D A & Ryan J M, 1983, Poynton, A Coalmining Village, p.80 (Monograph). SCH2683.

The manor house of the Warren family, Lords of the Manor of Poynton and Stockport in sixteenth and seventeenth century. In 1758 Sir George Warren married a rich heiress who enabled him to improve his estate and landscape the park. He built a new hall (CHER 2060/2) to the north-west of the original hall, which was altered so that the two towers were linked by an ornamental façade. The hall and associated buildings were used as a dairy and home farm.

<3> de Figueiredo P & Treuherz J, 1988, Cheshire Country Houses, p.264 (Book). SCH785.

A sixteenth century timber framed Hall extended with a Jacobean entrance tower and a forecourt bounded by castellated angle towers and an early Georgian red brick wing. Following the construction of a new hall in the 1750s the remains of the old Hall buildings were formed into an eye-catcher and dressed up with a castellated gateway like a toy fort. In 1826 the estate passed to the Vernons of Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, who, in 1869, enlarged The Towers with a haphazard arrangement of castellated projections and conservatories, as the principal house on the estate. This too was pulled down in 1935.

<4> Crowe C, 1990, Poynton Ice House (Report). SCH2681.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ9284, 1873-1875 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.