Manor House, Hale

Manor House, Hale

Manor House, Hale
Location Church End, Hale, Cheshire, England
Coordinates 53°20′01″N 2°47′47″W / 53.3336°N 2.7964°W / 53.3336; -2.7964Coordinates: 53°20′01″N 2°47′47″W / 53.3336°N 2.7964°W / 53.3336; -2.7964
OS grid reference SJ 470 821
Built Mid 17th century
Rebuilt Early 18th century
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name: The Manor House
Designated 28 May 1958
Reference no. 1330339
Location in Cheshire

The Manor House, Hale is a house in Church End, Hale, a village in the borough of Halton, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.[1]

History

The house was first built, not as a manor house, but as a vicarage. It was originally built in the middle of the 17th century. In the early 18th century, when the incumbent was Rev William Langford, it was refaced and partly rebuilt.[1][2] During the 19th century the building was used as a farmhouse and was known as Manor Farm. The last lord of the manor of Hale was Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh, who was also an architectural historian.[2] In 1947 he moved into the house with his family.[3]

Architecture

The manor house is built in brown brick with red sandstone dressings. The façade is symmetrical with two-and-a-half storeys and five bays. Both lateral bays and the central bay are flanked by rusticated Doric pilasters. The central bay contains a door with Corinthian columns on each side. Above the door is a scrolled pediment containing the arms of Rev Langford. The upper storey of the central bay contains a sash window on each side of which are Corinthian pilasters on large brackets. Above the window is another pediment containing carving. The other bays each contain a sash window in both storeys while the top half-storey contains four blind oval windows; all these windows are in moulded stone frames. Across the top of the façade is a cornice and a balustraded parapet. Behind the façade the house is two-gabled, the north gable being higher than the south.[1][2]

Internally the entrance hall is panelled with fluted pilasters. There are two staircases, the main one having twisted balusters and the secondary one having flat balusters.[1]

Culture

John Betjeman wrote a poem about the house entitled The Manor House, Hale, Near Liverpool.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Historic England, "The Manor House, Hale (1330339)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 21 August 2013
  2. 1 2 3 Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006), Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 189–190, ISBN 0-300-10910-5
  3. ↑ The Manor House, Visit Hale Village, retrieved 8 March 2011
  4. ↑ Poetry Landmarks, Poetry Society, retrieved 14 October 2009
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