Building record 1226/2 - Farm Building Approximatley 200 Yards West of Over Tabley Hall

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58571 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farm building (probably formerly stables). Late seventeenth century red English garden wall bond brick with stone dressings and tile roof. Two storeys with attic. North gable end: Stone plinth, stone quoins, two ground floor windows with chamfered mullioned stone surrounds at the right having had a twentieth century window imposed. Similar windows to first floor with twentieth century casement lights and to attic where it is bricked in. South front: originally similar to North but with twentieth century window imposed at left and loft doorway to first floor breaking into three-light stone surrounded and mullioned window. East front: partially obscured by two-storey nineteenth century lean-to but evidence of three ground floor doorways with stone quoins and heavy lintels and three 3-light windows to first floor similar to those on North and South fronts. West front: later doors to right and left and three-light windows to first floor right and left. Nineteenth century shant imposed on centre but now demolished and replaced by buttressed twentieth century walling.

<2> Hartwell C, Hyde M, Hubbard E & Pevsner N, 2011, The Buildings of England: Cheshire (2011 revision), p.522 (Book). SCH7059.

The so-called Little Manor, looks more like a high status stable, a seventeeth century Cheshire fashion.

<3> University of Manchester Archaeological Unit, 2002, Over Tabley Hall: An Archaeological Building Assessment of a 17th to 19th Manorial Complex, p.38 (Client Report). SCH4396.

Old Hall building had four main phases. The majority of the building belonged to the earliest phase. This was a three storey structure (the top floor being built into the attic space) built of handmade brick suggesting a seventeenth century date. It had stone quoins to the comers and stone mullion windows and stone door surrounds. All these features demonstrated that this original structure was of high status and thus almost certainly the earlier hall site. The next main phase of activity belonged to eighteenth century when the southern two storey brick wing was added and was c 8m wide and c 6m deep. Remains of this wing can still be seen in the southern elevation of the old hall, indicating that it was originally two storeys high. The third phase occurred probably in the nineteenth century when the old hall was converted into stables and the number of floors reduced to two: Finally, sometime during the early twentieth century the southern cross-wing was demolished.