{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox historic site | name = Churton Hall | native_name = | image = Churton Hall.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = Churton Hall in 2009 | locmapin = Cheshire | map_width = | map_caption = Location in Cheshire | alt = | coordinates = {{coord|53.10195|-2.86882|type:landmark_region:GB-CHE|display=title,inline}} | location = Churton by Farndon, Cheshire, England | designation1 = Grade II | designation1_offname = Churton Hall | designation1_date = 22 October 1952 | designation1_number = 1287224<ref name=nhl>{{NHLE |num= 1287224|desc= Churton Hall |grade=II |access-date= 1 August 2012|mode=cs2}}</ref> }}
200px|thumb|Churton Hall, 1793 :''not to be confused with Chirton Hall, Northumberland'' '''Churton Hall''' is a country house in the parish of Churton, Cheshire, England. The date of building is uncertain. There is a loose board carrying the date 1569 that, according to the authors of the ''Buildings of England'' series, may or may not date the house.<ref>{{Citation | last = Hartwell | first = Clare |last2 = Hyde | first2 = Matthew |last3 = Hubbard | first3 = Edward | author3-link = Edward Hubbard (architectural historian) | last4 =Pevsner | first4 =Nikolaus | author4-link =Nikolaus Pevsner | series= The Buildings of England| title = Cheshire | publisher =Yale University Press| year =2011| orig-year=1971| location =New Haven and London| page = 359| isbn =978-0-300-17043-6 }}</ref> Dendrochronological analysis suggests that the timbers within the cruck structure of the house were felled in or around 1461, suggesting a 15th-century construction,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://barnstonestate.com/news/cheshire-manor-houses-hidden-history-revealed |title=Cheshire Manor House's Hidden History Revealed |date=2023 |publisher=Barnston Estate |access-date=24 August 2023}}</ref> and the 1569 date is thought to refer to the hall's gifting as a wedding present to William Barnston and his wife Elizabeth.<ref name="houghton">{{cite magazine |title=Building on the Barnstons' Cheshire heritage |first=Kate |last=Houghton |date=January 2024 |magazine=Cheshire Life |page=218}}</ref>
It is a half-timbered house built for the Barnston family, and was "heavily restored" in 1978–80.<ref name=defig>{{Citation | last = de Figueiredo | first = Peter | last2 = Treuherz | first2 = Julian | year = 1988 | title = Cheshire Country Houses | publication-place = Chichester | publisher = Phillimore | page = [https://archive.org/details/cheshirecountryh0000defi/page/225 225] | isbn = 0-85033-655-4 | url = https://archive.org/details/cheshirecountryh0000defi/page/225 }}</ref> Much of the timber framing has been replaced by brick at the rear of the house. The house is roofed in slate. It has two storeys, and its plan is E-shaped.<ref name=nhl /> At each end of the building are gables with different designs.<ref name=defig/> The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.<ref name=nhl/>
The buildings were leased for three generations to a dairy-farming family following the Second World War, but the lease reverted to the Barnston Estate in February 2023. The estate has restored the original house and a 19th-century extension with the intention of leasing them as two homes.<ref name="houghton" />
==See also== {{portal|Cheshire}} *Listed buildings in Churton by Farndon
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
Category:Country houses in Cheshire Category:Timber framed buildings in Cheshire Category:Grade II listed houses in Cheshire
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