Chorlton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. House.
Chorlton Hall
- WRENN ID
- ruined-rood-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Chorlton Hall, Chorlton Lane, Backford
- OS grid reference
- SJ 407 717
- Coordinates
- 53.23925, -2.88914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chorlton Hall is a house that was remodeled in 1846 and 1847, incorporating elements from a farmhouse and an early 19th-century house. It is designed in the Gothic revival style and features a rendered exterior with a slate roof, rendered stacks, and a stone plinth. The building stands 2½ storeys tall and has five windows. The central bay contains three windows, while each projecting gabled bay on either side has one window. The central bay windows are sashes with glazing bars, partly reusing those from the original house, and have stone cills along with hood moulds from 1846/7 on the first and second floors. The first-floor windows also feature stone aprons. Above the attic windows are shaped gablets, which resemble the shaped gables, and all windows are positioned above arrow slits. Each gabled bay has an oriel window on the first floor with sashes that include glazing bars, and below the ground floor is a coat of arms with the motto 'In veritate Victoria' belonging to the Wicksted Swan family. There is a canted porch located below the third window of the central bay, which has a moulded parapet and sashes with glazing bars, along with hood moulds in each side panel. The central double doors feature long glazed panels and have a four-centred arch head beneath a rectangular hood mould. An 18th-century iron lantern is also present. The building's angles are stop-chamfered, and it has stone gable parapets.
Inside, the doors are mostly six-panel designs, with two doors featuring five raised and fielded panels, though most of the interior is from the mid-19th century. The dining room has a Jacobean style plastered ceiling, while the drawing room features a Gothic frieze and cornice. There is also a pine open string staircase with moulded balusters and newels.
Local climate
Chorlton Hall receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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