Trafford Hall With Attached Service Wing And Carriage House

Trafford Hall is a house dating from 1756, with later additions of side wings and a rear section. It is constructed of brown brick in Flemish bond, with slate roofs and stone dressings. The house is three storeys high with cellars, and has five windows, with the central bay projecting slightly. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, stone cills, splayed heads, rusticated voussoirs, and projecting keystones. A central Doric tetrastyle porch provides access to double panelled doors, partly glazed below a rectangular fanlight with semicircular glazing bars, all set within a shouldered doorcase. The brick parapet features stone piers at the angles of the centre bay. A moulded cornice runs across the front, turning around the corners, and a moulded stone plinth with rusticated quoins adds definition. The right-hand side of the house incorporates a first-floor Venetian window and a second-floor Diocletian window, positioned between blank windows with similar dressings. To the left is a two-storey service wing, set behind a brick wall with rusticated stone gate piers, topped with flat stone coping and pyramidal capping; a similar single pier stands on the wall to the right of the house. A former carriage house, possibly incorporating earlier kitchens, is attached to the service wing, featuring brown brick and a hipped slate roof with rusticated stone quoins. The house has iron downspouts and rainwater heads, dated 1756.

The interior features six-panelled doors in lugged doorcases, with a plain frieze and flat cornice in the hall. Doorcases in the rooms are pedimented, and a first-floor doorcase has an imbricated frieze and egg and dart mouldings on the architrave. A doorcase with a semicircular fanlight is located opposite the Venetian window. The dining room walls feature a large bolection panel, while a panelled dado is found in the former library and on the first floor. Most of the fireplaces are original, with one displaying Ionic pilasters. Several overmantels are present, and an attic room has a fireplace and overmantel with raised and fielded panels between pilasters and cupboards. The house also retains moulded cornices, panelled shutters, and an open-string staircase with three turned and twisted balusters per tread, turned newels, a moulded rail and curtail, and floral brackets.