Most of the original 14th century building has been destroyed, by a deliberate fire during the English Civil War after a visit by King Charles I, however the hall with a hammer-beam roof survives. The rest of the building was constructed in the 18th century.
King Charles I stayed at the hall on the night of 14 May 1645 as guest of the owner, Thomas Jolliffe, during the English Civil War.[4] The following day, before marching to Chester on 15 May, the Royalist soldiers set the Hall ablaze to prevent it falling into the hands of the Parliamentarian Army.[5] Only the great hall survived.[6]
Architecture
The three-storey six-bay building has a tiled roof.[2] The entrance has a portico with two doric columns.[2] The west wing encloses the hall with a hammer-beam roof.[7] The old hall is Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide. The roof has nine hammer-beams with spandrel brackets.[8] These rest on octagonal corbels of wood.[4] Each side of the roof has three compartments divided by purlins.[4]
Beneath the house, and extending beyond their walls are a series of corridors and chambers, totalling more than Шаблон:Convert. This includes a series of "streams", one brick wide and one brick high, which provide a cooling system to three of the chambers. These drain into a sump about Шаблон:Convert from the house.[9]
The area around the house are the remains of the foundations of older buildings.[7]
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