Lymm Hall is a moated house in the village of Lymm, Cheshire, England.
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The house was built in the 17th century for the Domville family. In the 18th or early 19th century, wings were added. In about 1840, stepped gables and mullioned windows were installed, resulting in a symmetrical front in neo-Jacobean style.[1] The rose garden was designed by Edward Kemp in 1849; it was his first recorded commission.[2]
The main (north) front and the west front are constructed in coursed buff sandstone; the south front is in brick with stone dressings on a stone plinth. The roofs are slated and the chimneys constructed of stone. The house has two storeys and attics. The north front is E-shaped. It has a central porch with a balustrade, and three-light mullioned and transomed windows on each side. Above the porch is a two-light sash window. The parapet is plain, rising in two steps to the projecting wings. These have three-light mullioned windows in the lower level, three-light mullioned and transomed windows in the upper level, and a single-light window in the gable. The west front has sash windows, a projecting chimney, and a canted four-light oriel window. The south front is irregular in plan, with a recessed gabled portion to the left containing one window, a central portion with three windows, and a right gabled portion containing a canted two-storey bay window. To the right of the south front is a wing with a bow window containing a French window. Above this is a Doric cornice. The east front is obscured behind a 19th-century service wing.[3]
The hall is approached by a bridge over a moat (now dry) that dates probably from the middle of the 17th century. This is a Grade II listed building.[4] The former stables are also listed Grade II. Dating probably from the early 17th century, these stables are now converted into a house.[5] The moated site on which the hall stands, together with an ice house, are a Scheduled Monument.[6] To the west of the hall are two cockpits that are also recognised as a Scheduled Monument.[7]