Willaston Old Hall

Willaston Old Hall is a manor house dated 1558, with 19th-century alterations and additions, built for Hugh Bennett. The structure is made of red brick with red sandstone quoins and dressings, and features a sandstone plinth. It has a slate roof with stone coped gables, moulded kneelers, and ball finials, along with a diagonally set brick stack topped with octagonal pots.

The exterior is three stories high with a five-bay front that has flush quoining. The outer and center bays are gabled and project from the main facade. The central bay features a studded oak door with ornamental wrought-iron strap hinges beneath a shaped lintel inscribed with "H.B." The ground and first floor windows consist of four mullioned and transomed lights, while the second floor has four mullioned lights beneath floating cornices in the gabled bays and three mullioned lights in the intermediate bays. The mullions and transoms are ovolo moulded, and there are continuous moulded cornices over the ground and first floors, with a brick dentilled band across the gable-end.

Inside, the ground and first floors showcase old chamfered beams and exposed joists in the ceilings. The hall and kitchen contain firebeams, while the lounge features oak panelling that reaches the ceiling, a fluted Jacobean frieze, and a 19th-century bay window. The staircase is adorned with carved strings based on strapwork, carved newel finials, and splat balusters. The first-floor south bedroom has a stone mantel displaying the Bennett arms on a shield at the center of the frieze, surrounded by floral and leaf decorations. A moulded opening with a slightly pointed soffit complements the mantel, and to the left, at frieze level, is a shield with a lion rampant. The room also contains an original plastered frieze with a leaf motif on the north wall.