Swineyard Hall

Swineyard Hall is a Grade II* listed farmhouse located in High Legh, dating from the late 16th century with 19th-century additions. The building features a stone and brick plinth, timber framing, and rendered brick, topped with a slate roof. It has an H-shaped plan due to the 19th-century addition and stands two storeys tall.

The entrance front has a left-hand projecting gable wing with a rendered base. The ground floor showcases close studding with a middle rail, while the upper corners feature chevroning. The first floor has a coved overhang and displays seven by two cells of small framing with quarter-roundels on the sides and a cross motif in the central squares. A four-light casement window is positioned in the upper three central cells, and diamond panels with cross motifs adorn the gable. To the right, there is a rendered wall with two-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors. A projecting rendered wing on the right features a five-light casement window on the ground floor and a similar window above, both with hood moulds. The left-hand facade is small framed with angle bracing, leading to a gable with V-strutting.

On the rear facade, there is a six-light stone mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor, with a five-light similar window above it. A two-light mullioned window is located to the right at first floor level, while the rest of the rear facade is obscured by 19th-century outhouses.

Inside, the ground floor rooms have chamfered end-stopped beams, and there is a large 17th-century truss with angle struts.