Mickle Trafford Manor

Mickle Trafford Manor is a manor house dating to the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with alterations and additions in the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally a small manor house, it is now a house. The structure is timber-framed, though the exterior is now stuccoed, topped with a Welsh slate roof, and features a brick gable chimney. Originally built with a lobby entry plan, it now comprises two parallel ranges. The front façade is two-storey and four-bayed, with a stone-coped plinth and three gables displaying planted timbers and pierced barge boards. The windows are 2- or 3-light wooden casements, with one in the second bay featuring a hood mould. A canted bay window is located at the left end, and a third bay contains an internal porch, approached by three stone steps leading to a 5-panelled door in a wooden architrave. Inside, an original timber-framed rear wall is partially revealed, showing tall rectangular framing and angle braces. A plain bressumer sits above a former central fireplace which now contains a late 18th-century cast-iron basket grate. There are exposed ceiling beams and joists, along with a late 18th-century oak staircase featuring turned column balusters, a moulded handrail, and square newels, with plain panelling in the well. The roof structure includes a tiebeam and collar truss with diagonal braces, and wind-braced trenched purlins.