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Rake Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Little Stanney, Cheshire West and Chester

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2581 / 53°15'29"N

Longitude: -2.8848 / 2°53'5"W

OS Eastings: 341072

OS Northings: 373823

OS Grid: SJ410738

Mapcode National: GBR 8Z9R.7R

Mapcode Global: WH881.NCHL

Plus Code: 9C5V7458+73

Entry Name: Rake Hall

Listing Date: 4 June 1952

Last Amended: 20 December 1983

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1330219

English Heritage Legacy ID: 55416

ID on this website: 101330219

Location: Little Stanney, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, CH2

County: Cheshire West and Chester

Civil Parish: Little Stanney

Built-Up Area: Ellesmere Port

Traditional County: Cheshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire

Church of England Parish: Ellesmere Port Team

Church of England Diocese: Chester

Tagged with: Pub English country house

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Description


SJ 47SW LITTLE STANNEY C.P. RAKE LANE
(East Side)
4/33
Rake Hall
(formerly listed as
Rake Hall, remains)

4.6.52 II

Pub and restaurant, formerly house. C17th altered and added to. Pebbledashed
brick, slate roofs, rendered plinth, stone dressings. Roadside centre
wing of 3 storeys, 2 windows, steely pitched roof. Windows are timber
casements. 1 dormer. 1st and 2nd floor bands are rendered, that at
2nd floor is moulded. Stacks are at gables. At right is lower 2 storey
4 window wing, Casements, added and altered door, stone gable parapet
and kneelers. Original stack at gable, added stack on ridge. Modern one
storey extension in front. At left 2 storey, 1 window wing, with hipped
roof, has canted bay and casements. Entrance through added porch at side.
Garden front is in 2 wings, probably early and mid Cl9th of similar rendering.
Both have hipped slate roofs. 2 storeys, 3 bays. At right under one roof,
has stone canted bay and oriel. Central bay has altered openings. Left
bay has canted bay. Stacks are at ends of left and central bay and on
centre ridge of right bay. Interior, much altered but part of c17th close
string stair, with turned balusters, moulded rail. Rough hewn beams in
hall supported by (Jacobean) screen of 2 columns. Upper floor rooms in
C19th wings have 6-panelled doors and simple panelled ceilings and moulded
cornices. Formerly seat of Bunbury family. Ormerod, G, History of the
County Palatine and City of Chester 2nd Edition. London (l882).


Listing NGR: SJ4107273823

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