HOLLINGWORTH HALL

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Site of a 17th century building which incorporated parts of an earlier, possibly fortified, house. The later house comprised a stone-built central block with a porch and three storey cross wings. The porch was rebuilt circa 1835 and a coat of arms added, possibly taken from the demolished gatehouse. The house itself was demolished in 1944.

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[SK 00169782] Hollingworth Hall [G.T.] (1)

Hollingworth Hall is a C17th building but parts of the interior are of much earlier date.

The present owner had the gatehouse taken down, and all that remains is the archway, the coat of arms and, perhaps some of the stone worked up and used in the erection of the present porch. [Photo. of present gateway as described]. (2)

Hollingworth Hall has been demolished. (3)

Central block with cross wings. The porch may have been rebuilt circa 1835 using a coat of arms possibly taken from the gatehouse. The house was demolished in 1944. (4)

Documented as a 17th century rebuilding of a 15th century fortified house. (5)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1882

( 2) Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

Trans. H.S. of L. and C. Vol.50 N.S. Vol.14. 1898 p.107 (James A. Waite) pl.IX 50 Page(s)107

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 JHW 27-FEB-64

(4) Peter de Figueiredo and Julian Treuherz 1988 Cheshire country houses

Page(s)244

(5) Anthony Emery 2000 Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales 1300-1500, Volume II: East Anglia, Central England and Wales

Page(s)477

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