Building record 1833/1/1 - Burton Hall

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 1130559 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Burton Hall, The Village. Early C17 for John Werden, some C19 additions. English bond brick with buff sandstone dressings, Welsh slate roof and four gable stone capped brick chimneys. Three-storey over basement, symmetrical three-bay front. Chamfered stone plinth, flush stone quoins, continuous label mould at second floor. The front is under a stone-coped and finialled triangular gable. Ground storey has an arched doorcase, approached by ten stone steps. Chamfered mullioned and transomed windows. Interior: Entry into small hall which contains late C17 dogleg oak staircase. Room to left of entrance wainscotted with cornice and wooden surround to a corner fireplace. Heavy, deeply chamfered ceiling beams carried on moulded wooden post and corbel at first floor. Full architectural description

<2> Chester Courant, 1878-1990, The Cheshire Sheaf, 18/65-6 J H E B 1921 (Newspaper-Magazine). SCH3105.

The Bruens of Stapleford held the Manor of Burton and poss the estate upon which the present Hall of Burton is built. The Werdens owned the estate when Webb made his itinerary in 1623 and described the building as 'the fair and fine conceitedly built house of brick'. In 1810 Lysons described the house as a farmhouse.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ56SW4 1976 (Index). SCH2487.

<4> david lewis Associates, 2006, Burton Hall, Burton in Tarvin: Changes to Cheese Cottage - Impact Assessment, R3245 (Client Report). SCH6597.