Building record 1684/1 - Chorlton Old Hall

Chorlton Old Hall,Chorlton Lane.House,1666 with additions to rear & alts.Red-brown brick,slate roof.T-plan.4bays with projecting righthand bay with shaped gable & smaller projecting entrance bay.Rectangular timber casements,mostly replaced chamfered stone plinth.1st floor dentillated band, brick parapet with stone coping at lefthand gable.Int:Studded door with iron fittings has inscription "In the time of Owen Clutton 1666 AC" above it.Stop chamfered beams.Inglenook.Close string stair has flat pierced balusters, moulded rail & square moulded newels,that at bottom bears Clutton arms.Full arch desc (1).Chorlton Old Hall is a ruinous moated mansion,half-timbered & finished with gables (2).In 1917 there was no trace of a moat (3).The OS consider that the moat is a natural drainage channel which has been made wider & deeper to provide essential drainage for the house.The garden has been extended over it.A vague hollow on W is prob of no significance (4).'Moat ' named on 1st, 2nd & 3rd edition OS maps.

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /4/3 (Report). SCH1934.

<2> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 2/665 (Y) (Book). SCH1389.

<3> Chester Courant, 1878-1990, The Cheshire Sheaf, 14/70 JHEB 1917 (Newspaper-Magazine). SCH3105.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ44NE8/1964 (Index). SCH2487.

<5> Pevsner N & Hubbard E, 1971, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, /275 (Book). SCH3078.