Monument record 1529/1/1 - Wincle Grange Farmhouse

<1> Earwaker, J P, 1877-1880, East Cheshire Past & Present, 2/1880/432-4 (Y) (Book). SCH1080.

Wincle Grange,was a grange of Combermere Abbey. 1 carucate of land granted c.1200 by Earl of Chester to monks of Combermere SW of Nantwich. The lands were held by Combermere until 1537. It passed to Legh family of Ridge, Nr Macclesfield (1)

<2> Historic England, 2011, The National Heritage List for England, 1138880 (Web Site). SCH6528.

. Present blg is a farmhouse & may date from mid C14 but oldest visible features prob late C15. NW wing prob C18 alt & repaired C19 & C20. Sandstone with stone-slate roofs. SE wing,prob at 1st great hall. NE side: older wing of 2 storeys & 2 windows, each of 3 trefoil lights. SE end: to lower storey - 4 trefoil lights, to upper storey - 3 square-headed lights. Lower storey - hood moulded with battlement top. Upper storey-alt hood mould with zig-zag carving. SW side: Georgian proptn windows. Int: much altered. SE wing prob contained great hall. Walled-up inglenook on NE wall. Walled up space said to contain a spiral stair. Some stop-chamfered oak beams; a massive Queen-strut truss of oak in attic is alt to take doorway. Full architectural desc

<3> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Ormerod G 1882 3/769 (Book). SCH1389.

<4> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, 3/ Harris B 1980 (Book). SCH3556.