Monument record 523/2/2 - Moat House, Lymm

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 423798 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

House, formerly partly stables of Lymm Hall, probably early seventeenth century, altered. Coursed red sandstone with grey slate roof. Two storeys, rectangular, with shaped end-gables. Irregular window pattern, largely altered. Replaced double doors in round-headed opening, with seventeenth century one-light window to right, and three-light window (two lights blocked) to left. two inserted doors and two inserted windows to lower storey. Seventeenth century three-light blocked window high in upper storey, far left, to be repositioned (1983), and five inserted windows. Windows are mullioned. Plain plinth (except to slightly recessed right bay). Cyma band at first floor, rising slightly to right bay. Parapet has five panels of shaped square balusters (c.f. bridge over moat). Small wing of brick to rear, left, probably nineteenth century. Interior: Left room has stopped ovolo oak beam; hall has an ovolo beam; central room a chamfered beam; right room (probably added, with a thick internal wall) has two ovolo beams. Two massive oak trusses (left and central bedroom) have cambered tie-beams; the left truss (fully exposed) has queen-struts; curved wind braces.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ68 NE 10 (Index). SCH2487.

Building reputed locally to have been a domestic chapel (B.R.S. 02/07/1962).

The so called chapel is orientated north-south and bears no indication of having been a chapel (TP Waggot 25/10/1962).

<3> Hartwell C, Hyde M, Hubbard E & Pevsner N, 2011, The Buildings of England: Cheshire (2011 revision), p.448 (Book). SCH7059.

'…a mysterious building, probably seventeenth century, with some mullioned windows, a roof of pointed barrel shape, and gables similarly shaped. Along the long side a balustraded parapet. Continuous string course. A lower section at one end, with a similar roof, looks like a chancel, but there are no records of a domestic chapel…'

<4> Oxford Archaeology North, 2013, Lymm Hall, Lymm, Cheshire: Historic Environment Assessment Report, p.10 (Client Report). SCH7238.

'...It has been suggested that the Moat House (SJ 6843 8708), with its early seventeenth century façade, and later remodelled as a stables in c 1633, contained evidence for an older building comprising a long hall structure of three bays 17m x 6.6m with medieval roof-trusses and cambered tie-beams…'

<5> de Figueiredo P & Treuherz J, 1988, Cheshire Country Houses, p.252 (Book). SCH785.

"..a stone range with boat-shaped gable ends, irregular fenestration and a parapet like that on the Hall porch. Called the Moat House, it was probably not a domestic range as there is no original chimney."