Winnington Hall

Winnington Hall is a large house comprising an oak-framed wing dating to approximately 1600, a stone wing and connecting link built in 1775 by Samuel Wyatt, and restored around 1920 by Darcy Braddell. The house has grey slate roofs.

The oak-framed entrance wing is two storeys high plus attics, with five gabled bays. It features small framing with chevrons on a rendered stone plinth, as well as plaster panels. A 19th-century oak-framed porch shelters double doors consisting of three oak panels. The windows are replaced casements. A three-storey bay with a spire has been added to the right, along with a service wing which lacks notable features. From the courtyard, the three-storey end-gable of the oak wing is visible. The brick stair bay, appearing as three storeys high, has recessed nine-pane sashes.

The rear of the stone wing, originally an orangery, has looped radial-bar lunettes and a Venetian window. The two-storey stone wing is taller than the oak wing and has five bays with canted ends. It features a plinth and fifteen-pane recessed sashes to the lower storey, with recessed panels containing festoons above. The upper storey has nine-pane recessed sashes. Various chimneys are present.

Inside the oak wing, some areas have been relined in the style of Wyatt’s stone wing. The main hall contains a Tuscan screen with paired columns and antae, pilasters in the corners, six-panel mahogany doors, and a 19th-century stone fireplace with an iron grate set within a semi-circular alcove. The billiard room has altered posts and a ceiling. An open-well staircase, likely by Braddell, leads to an oak-panelled corridor and a single oak-panelled room on the upper floor. Other rooms have been altered, with coved ceilings.

Behind the hall in the oak wing, a lobby leads to the former orangery in the stone wing, an octagon room, and apsed dining and drawing rooms, all of which are excellently proportioned and detailed, with particularly notable lunettes, a vault in the orangery, and apses in the other rooms. To the left of the lobby is a stairwell containing a geometrical staircase with superimposed semicircular flights leading to the first and second landings. The first landing now connects to the upper storey of the oak wing through a bathroom, while the second connects to the upper storey of the stone wing.