Saltersley 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 ...
about west of
Wilmslow,
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, in the civil parish of
Mobberley. The authors of the ''
Buildings of England'' series describe it as a "lonely but high-status ... house on a sand island in the middle of
Lindow Moss
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Lindow Moss, also known as Saltersley Common, is a raised mire peat bog on the edge of Wilmslow in Cheshire, England. It has been used as common land since the medieval period and is best known for the discovery of the preserved bog b ...
".
The house was built in the 17th century, with additions in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed in
sandstone and
whitewashed brick with a
slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...
roof.
[ Its medieval H-shape has been rationalised to form a flat front with three gables. The windows are mullioned.][ The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.][
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See also
* Listed buildings in Mobberley
References
Grade II listed buildings in Cheshire
Country houses in Cheshire
Grade II listed houses
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