Haslington Hall

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Haslington Hall

Haslington Hall
Location Haslington, Cheshire, England
Coordinates Coordinates: 53°06′00″N 2°22′39″W / 53.09997°N 2.37743°W / 53.09997; -2.37743
OS grid reference SJ 748 560
Built 1545
Built for Admiral Sir Francis Vernon
Listed Building – Grade I
Designated 10 June 1952
Reference No. 1136283
Location in Cheshire

Haslington Hall is a country house located in open countryside 1 km to the east of the village of Haslington, Cheshire, England. It is designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.[1]

Early history

It is difficult to trace the early history of the hall, because all early documents relating to the hall were kept in a bank vault in Manchester. They were destroyed in 1940 during World War II bombing of Manchester.[2]

The manor of Haslington was acquired by the Vernon family as a consequence of the 14th-century marriage of Sir Thomas Vernon to Joan Lostock, heiress of Haslington.[3] The house was built by Admiral Sir Francis Vernon in 1545, and contains parts of the original medieval manor house,[4] which are said to date back to 1480.[5] Additions and alterations were made to it in the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries.[1] It is claimed that some of the timbers used in the early phase of construction were salvaged from ships of the Spanish Armada in 1588.[citation needed] In the late 19th century it was a farmhouse.[6] In 1931 extensive repairs, alterations and additions were made.[7]

Architecture

The house is built partly in timber framing and partly in brick, with a slate roof. It has two storeys and six bays.[1] The timber framed areas are decorated with herringbone bracing, quatrefoils and cusped concave-sided lozenges.[7] The rear elevation is mainly in brickwork.[1]

Recent history

Previous residents include Colonel H Watts and Mrs Lillian Watts, Mrs Watts was the first president of the Haslington and Crewe Green branch of the Women’s Institute founded in 1944. Confusion has arisen in several publications with Mrs Madge Watt, a Canadian lady who founded the Women’s Institute in Britain in 1915; she returned to Canada in 1919 and is unlikely ever to have visited Haslington.[8]

After the first World War Air Commodore Dame Felicity Peake, the first director of the Women's Royal Air Force, daughter of Colonel H Watts, spent much of her youth living in the house.[9] The house was bought in 1970 by the millionaire Tony Vernon who established Murray Vernon, one of the largest independent dairy companies in the country. He restored the house over the next thirty years.[5] Following his death in 2005 the house was sold for £3m to Isaq and Nina Raja.[10] It is now part of TailorMade Venues, an exclusive collection of venues for weddings and private functions.[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 English Heritage, "Haslington Hall (1136283)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 1 August 2012 
  2. ↑ Green, D. (2007), Haslington and Winterley remembered: A pictorial journey down memory lane, Sandbach, Cheshire: David Green, p. 51 
  3. ↑ Ormerod, George; Thomas Helsby (Ed.) (1882), The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester (2nd ed.), London: George Routledge and Sons, p. iii. 317 
  4. ↑ Haslington, Cheshire County Council, retrieved 2008-03-30 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Tony Vernon", Telegraph.co.uk (Telegraph Media Group), 12 April 2004, retrieved 2008-03-30 
  6. ↑ Bartholomew, John (1887), "Descriptive gazetteer entries for Barthomley", Gazetteer of the British Isles (A Vision of Britain through Time), retrieved 2008-03-30 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 392, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 
  8. ↑ Moyse, Cordelia (2004), "Watt, Margaret Rose (1868–1948)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press), retrieved 18 August 2013  ((subscription or UK public library membership required))
  9. ↑ Condell, Diana (11 November 2002), "Air Commodore Dame Felicity Peake", guardian.co.uk (Guardian News and Media), retrieved 2008-03-30 
  10. ↑ Top 100 UK Country Property Sales, Sands Home Search, retrieved 2008-03-30 
  11. ↑ Haslington Hall, Holiday Cottages Group, retrieved 2008-03-30 
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