Tattenhall Hall

Tattenhall Hall is a manor house built in the early 17th century for Sir Richard Bostock, with significant interior alterations made in 1858 for Robert Barbour. The exterior is constructed of orange brick in an English garden wall bond, with buff sandstone dressings. The roof is slate, with one lateral brick chimney and three ridge chimneys featuring diamond-shaped stacks.

The house is arranged in an H-shape. The main front has two and three storeys and five bays. It features a moulded stone plinth, stone quoins, and stone-coped gables with kneelers and turned finials. The bay on the right projects under a gable, showcasing a six-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed window with a king mullion, beneath a hood mould; a similar four-light window is above, also beneath a flat hood, and another four-light window within the gable. A graffito "BB CE 1712" is carved on a quoin. The fourth bay is recessed, with a six-light window to the hall below and a two-light and four-light mullioned and transomed window above. The remaining three bays project under a gable, featuring a stepped plinth and a mix of two, three, four, and six-light mullioned and transomed windows. A moulded stone doorcase with a restored, studded oak board door is located to the right side of this projection. Fenestration and doorcases are complete on the remaining sides, though some windows are blocked.

Inside, the plan of the service rooms, the cross-passage, the hall, and the extensive solar wing remain intact, although most of the fittings date from 1858. Some reused Jacobean panelled window seats and wainscotting (now used as doors) are present. A passage features an original ornate iron grille in the ceiling, and the service rooms retain bead-moulded beams.

Documentary evidence indicates that the house was constructed before 1622, making it an early and complete example of a brick building in Cheshire.