Oughtrington Hall was a
country house located in Oughtrington Lane to the east of the village of
Lymm
Lymm is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England, which incorporates the hamlets of Booths Hill, Broomedge, Church Green, Deansgreen, Heatley, Heatley Heath, Little Heatley, Oughtrington, Reddish, Rushgreen and ...
in
Cheshire, England.
The
manor house
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was rebuilt in about 1810 for Trafford Trafford (''né'' Leigh: a descendant of the ancient
Leighs of
West Hall, High Legh), who assumed the
surname and
arms of
Trafford
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by
Royal Licence
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5 December 1791 in compliance with the
Will of his maternal uncle Richard Trafford, of
Swythamley.
In 1862 Oughtrington Hall was bought by G. C. Dewhurst, a
cotton manufacturer from
Manchester
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. Dewhurst enlarged the service wing and also paid for the construction of
St Peter's Church nearby.
Built in the
neoclassical architectural style, it is
rendered of brick with stone dressings and a
slate roof
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.
[ At the centre of the entrance front is a wide canted bay containing a porch with paired Tuscan columns. On each side of the ]porch
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are three-light windows under a segmental arch.[
The former mansion now forms the main building of Lymm High School,www.lymmhigh.org.uk]
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as a Grade II listed building
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.[
]
See also
* Listed buildings in Lymm
* List of works by Thomas Harrison
Notes
References
Houses completed in 1810
Country houses in Cheshire
Neoclassical architecture in Cheshire
Grade II listed buildings in Cheshire
Grade II listed houses
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