Monument record 1195/1/1 - Swineyard Hall Farmhouse

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58534 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse. Late sixteenth century with nineteenth century additions. Stone and brick plinth, timber framing and rendered brick with slate roof. Two storeys, H-shaped plan with nineteenth century addition. Entrance front: Left hand projecting gable wing has rendered base. Close studding with middle rail to ground floor and chevroning to upper corners. Coved overhang to first floor which has seven by two cells of small framing with quarter-roundels to sides and cross motif to central squares. Four-light casement window to upper three central cells. Diamond panels with cross motifs to gable. Rendered wall to right with two-light casement windows to ground and first floors. Projecting rendered wing to right of this with five-light casement window to ground floor with similar window to first floor with hood mould. Nineteenth century wing to ground floor. Timber framing to first floor. Left-hand facade: small framed with angle bracing with gable to right of centre with V-strutting. Rear facade: six-light stone mullioned and transomed window to ground floor with five-light similar window above. Two-light mullioned window to right of this at first floor level. Remainder of rear facade obscured by nineteenth century outhouses. Nineteenth century wing to left. Interior: Chamfered end-stopped beams to ground floor rooms. Large seventeenth century truss with angle struts.

<2> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol.I, p.463 (Book). SCH1389.

Swineyard, (or Swinehead) in the early part of the fourteenth century, became the residence of a younger branch of the Leghs of the East Hall. Richard Legh was living at Swineyard in 1663 and shortly afterwards Swineyard was sold to Henry Legh of East Hall.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ68 SE4 (Index). SCH2487.

Sixteenth to seventeenth century 'black and white' partly moated house. Restored.

<4> English Heritage, Various, Schedule Entry (Scheduled Ancient Monuments Amendment), 13502 (Scheduling Record). SCH2950.

In the early 14th century the hamlet of Swineyard became the residence of a branch of the Legh family. Swineyard Hall is late 16th century with 19th century additions and is a Listed Building Grade II*. Swineyard Hall and outbuilding, all service pipes, walls, railings, fences, telegraph poles, the timber bridge and the yard are excluded from the scheduling; the ground beneath all these features, however, is included.

<5> Higham N J, 1984-9, Professor Nick Higham's Aerial Photographs, 1986/5/10 & 1986/6/14, 16, 18 (Aerial Photograph). SCH7659.