Building record 546/1 - Stretton Hall, Lower Stretton

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 1139345 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

6/37 Stretton Hall (formerly listed as Old Hall)

Hall 1664 with C19 restoration and extension, partly 1879. The C17 oak frame is brick-nogged; the C19 walls are of brown brick; C19 brick chimneys; modern stone-slate roofs. The oak framed front of 2 storeys and 4 windows has a 2 storey porch near the centre and a projecting gable to each side. Small rectangular panels; chevron-framed gables with C19 shaped bargeboards. The mullioned windows have restored leaded glazing. The oak boarded door and lower part of the framed porch are renewed. Beam over window above porch bears date 1664.

<2> Department for the Environment, Various, Provisional List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 43/6/27 1962 (Report). SCH2744.

Seat of Starkey family

<3> North Cheshire Family History Society, 1972-5, North Cheshire Family Historian, 1/issue 3 (Journal/Periodical). SCH2252.

Stretton Hall 4m south of Warrington '...was reconstructed c.1644 from the materials of the demolished, moated Manor House, known as the Nether or Lower Hall of Stretton

<4> Medieval Settlement Research Group Record Cards-moated sites (Monograph). SCH2182.