Building record 1826/2/1 - Aldersey Manor

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /5/3 (Report). SCH1934.

<2> Historic England, 2011, The National Heritage List for England, 1229889 (Web Site). SCH6528.

ALDERSEY C.P. ALDERSEY LANE Aldersey Manor (formerly listed as Manor Farmhouse, ALDERSEY GREEN LANE (West Side) previously listed as Manor Farm under Aldersey Green)

Manor house. Front of left cross-wing probably circa 1600; right wing 1635 largely cased in brick mid C19. Oak frame and white-painted brick on sandstone plinth; gabled grey slate roof; massive ridge chimney of sandstone has three detached diagonal flues of brick; lateral chimney (left) has one diagonal flue. Of two storeys, the C16/C17 part is of three rooms with a late C20 one-room extension, right, in keeping. The cross-gable has small-frame panels beneath a central C20 small-pane timber casement to each storey; chevron framing to each side and lattice framing to gable. Tops of corner-posts are jowled; no jetties. Dormer-gable to central bedroom has jettied tie-beam carved 1635 HIX.. Mid C20 open oak-framed porch. C20 small-pane timber casements in brick-cased portion.

Interior: the central room (great hall) has stone ingle-nook with massive chamfered oak hood-beam and alcove with large stone corbels to rear; ovolo stop-chamfered beams. Rooms to left and right have chamfered oak beams; some oak-framed internal walls. The three bedrooms have oak-framed walls, queen-strut trusses and purlins; the lattice-framed gable is exposed in left bedroom.

<3> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 120/2 Coddington c.1839 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

Tithe map of 1839 shows buildings in a plot in this location name "Farm house etc" with the owner and occupier Samuel Aldersey