Hartford Manor

SJ 67 SW 647 726 4/154

NORTHWICH C.P. GREENBANK LANE (South side) Hartford Manor

II

House, late C18, altered and extended; now office. Yellow ashlar with hipped grey slate roof. 2 storeys; 5 windows. The symmetrical front has slightly bowed central bay, projecting distyle Roman Doric portico with flat entablature and one 2-window room on each storey to each side. Curved hardwood double doors, each leaf having 3 fielded panels. Plinth with moulded top; plain 1st floor band; stone frieze and cornice at eaves. 3-pane sidelights to doorway with concave lozenges incised in stonework beneath; segmental fan-light with ornate iron bars; recessed sashes of 12 panes to lower storey and 9 panes to upper storey. The sash above the portico has moulded architrave with entablature on consoles. 3-window slightly recessed extension to right, 1940's, with fascimile windows anti detailing in stucco. Rear extensions of no interest. Interior: 3 good mahogany doors in hall, of 6 fielded panels with carved mouldings, with panelled cases and shouldered architraves; dogleg open-string stair with shaped brackets, swept mahogany rail and straight moulded balusters, some altered; 2 6-panel doors in panelled cases upstairs.