Baddiley Hall is a
country house
An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these peopl ...
in the settlement of
Baddiley in
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...
, England. Previously there was a
half-timbered
Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...
house on the site, but this had been replaced by the current house before the death of its owner, Sir Henry Mainwaring, in 1797.
It is constructed in brown brick with a tiled roof, and has an L-shaped plan.
Its architectural style is
Georgian
Georgian may refer to:
Common meanings
* Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country)
** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians
**Georgian scripts, three scrip ...
.
The house is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II
listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
.
[ Figueirdo and Treuherz comment that it is "a modest Georgian brick manor house, hardly more than a farmhouse".][
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See also
*Listed buildings in Baddiley
Baddiley is a civil parish in Cheshire East, England. It contains nine buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest grade, and the ot ...
References
Houses completed in the 18th century
Country houses in Cheshire
Georgian architecture in Cheshire
Grade II listed buildings in Cheshire
Grade II listed houses
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