Source/Archive record SCH4008 - Platts Hall, Northwich, Cheshire: Fabric Survey Report

In the winter of 1997/8 Lancaster University Archaeological Unit (LUAU) undertook a programme of archaeological survey at Platts Hall, Lostock Gralam, near Northwich, Cheshire (SJ 369375) on behalf of the P J Livesey Group Ltd. The programme comprised five main elements: a basic documentary study, a pre-intervention photographic survey, a rectified photographic survey, an instrument survey and fabric analysis of the west wing and a watching brief during the dismantling. The survey was required provide a full graphic record of the timber framed West Wing of the hall and a base plan of the nineteenth century East Wing.