More information : [SJ 6782 8383] Swineyard Hall [GT] Moat [GT] (1)
Swineyard Hall - 16th-17th c. 'black and white' partly moated
house.
Restored. (2)
The house has been refaced and has a nondescript appearance.
See GP AO/62/157/4.
Three sides of the moat have been preserved as a stone-lined
ornamental pond.
Published survey (25" 1910) to be amended by Field Surveyor. (3)
As described by authorities 2 and 3. (4)
SJ 679839. Swineyard Hall. A simple three-sided moat. (5)
Swineyard Hall Farmhouse (formerly listed as Swinyard Hall)
II*
Farmhouse. Late 16th c and 19th c additions. Stone and brick plinth,timber framing and rendered brick with slate roof. 2 storeys,
H-shaped plan with 19th c addition. Entrance front: Left hand
projecting gable wing has rendered base. Close studded with middle
rail to ground floor and chevroning to upper corners. Coved over-
hang to first floor which has 7 x 2 cells of small framing with
quarter-roundels to sides and cross motif to central squares.
4-light casement window to upper 3 central cells. Diamond panels
with cross motifs to gabe. Rendered wall to right with 2-light
casement windows to ground and first floors. Projecting rendered
to right of this with 5-light casement window to ground floor with
similar window to first floor with hood mould. 19th c wing to
ground floor. Timber framing to first floor. Left-hand facade:
small framed with angle bracing with gable to right of centre with
V-strutting. Rear facade: 6-light stone mullioned and transomed
window to ground floor with 5-light similar window above. 2-light
mullioned window to right of this at first floor level. Reminder
of rear facade obscured by 19th c outhouses. 19th c wing to left.
Interior. Chamfered end-stopped beams to ground floor rooms. Large
17th c truss with angle struts. (6)
Additional reference. (7)
SJ 67808381. Swineyard Hall is as described externally. Its modern
name is Swinyard Hall.
Around the farmhouse lie three sides of a rectangular moat, much
altered and now really no more than an ornamental garden water
feature. The inner edge of the moat has been brick lined for as
long as the present farmer can remember, although it has been refaced
recently; the outer edge began to erode recently and has now been
stabilized by a lining of road kerb stones, Away from this lining
which rises only some 30cms above water level, the banks are graded
and landscaped, although the height involved is not great. The
depth of water in the moat is shallow, being fed by seepage and by
surface run-off from the house, and it seems likely the moat was
always more wide than deep.
To the S the land falls gently away from the level plateau on which
the moat lies down to Sink Moss, and some kind of external banking
might be thought to have been necessary to retain water in the moat
if a S arm ever existed. No trace of such damming or of the moat
course extending to the rear of the farmhouse was seen, and its
original existence may be doubted.
Revised at 1:2500. (8)
SJ 6780 8382. Swineyard Hall moated site. Scheduled RSM No 13502.
The island measures c.38m square, surrounded on three sides by a
waterlogged moat preserved as a stone and brick-lined ornamental
pond between 6m wide across the W arm to 14m wide across the E arm.
It is 0.4m deep to the water level. The S arm has been infilled and
a cobbled yard now occupies this area. A modern timber footbridge
gives access across the N arm close to the NW corner and replaced
a drawbridge known to have existed until the 1920s. Between the
moat's N arm and Swineyard Lane is an area of lawn beneath which,
at a depth of c.0.50m, are areas of cobbling and structural
foundations. In the early 14th century the hamlet of Swineyard
became the residence of a branch of the Legh family. Swineyard Hall
is late 16th century with 19th century additions. (9)
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