# Garrett Hall

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Listed building in Greater Manchester, England

Garrett Hall Garrett Hall farmhouse Interactive map of the Garrett Hall area General information Location Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, England Coordinates 53°30′36″N 2°26′31″W / 53.510°N 2.442°W / 53.510; -2.442 Design and construction Designations Listed Building – Grade II Official name Garrett Hall Designated 27 July 1987 Reference no. 1163348

**Garrett Hall** or **The Garrett** is a former [manor house](/source/Manor_house) and now a farmhouse in [Tyldesley](/source/Tyldesley), [Greater Manchester](/source/Greater_Manchester), England. The hall was designated a [grade II listed](/source/Grade_II_listed) building in 1987.

## History

The Garrett was the home and estate of the [lords of the manor](/source/Lord_of_the_manor) of Tyldesley after the manor was split from [Astley](/source/Astley%2C_Greater_Manchester). John Tyldesley lived there in 1468 and his son, John, was living there in 1505 when he swore fealty to the Butlers at [Bewsey](/source/Bewsey) for his land at Garratt.[1] When John Tyldesley of Garrett died in 1558 his estate comprised seven [messuages](/source/Messuage), 100 acres of [heath](/source/Heath) and the same of [moss](/source/Peat_bog), 20 acres of pasture, 10 of meadow, six of woodland and 40 acres of other land.[2]

In 1613 the will of Lambert Tyldesley revealed that the former manor house contained "a kitchen, backhouse, dayhouse, mealhouse, larder, [buttery](/source/Buttery_(room)), [parlour](/source/Parlour) and hall. In addition there was a storehouse, closet, three chambers over the kitchen, parlour and hall, a small chamber, a servant's chamber and a maid's room."[3] The Tyldesley family held the manor until Lambert Tyldesley's death in 1652 when it passed through his great-granddaughter Mary, to her husband Thomas Stanley. In 1702 Thomas Withington was the tenant and it had a hall, parlour, little parlour, kitchen, buttery and chamber above. There were two [looms](/source/Loom) in the kitchen and Withington kept five horses and a colt, cattle, sheep and two pigs.[4] In 1716 the hall, its [water mill](/source/Water_mill) for grinding corn and [kiln](/source/Kiln) were let.[1]

The estate remained with the Stanleys until it was sold to Thomas Clowes of Manchester in 1732. The Reverend Thomas Clowes sold the hall and estate to [Robert Haldane Bradshaw](/source/Robert_Haldane_Bradshaw) of [Worsley Old Hall](/source/Worsley_Old_Hall) for £21,000 (equivalent to £1,990,000 in 2025)[5] in 1829 and it became part of the [Bridgewater estates](/source/Worsley#Bridgewater_estates)[1] who were buying neighbouring estates for their mineral rights.[6] The present landowners, [Peel Holdings](/source/Peel_Holdings), have proposed building 600 houses on farmland between the cemetery and [Mosley Common](/source/Mosley_Common).[7]

## Architecture

The 17th-century hall is now a farmhouse. The two-storey, timber-framed structure was built on a T-shaped plan. It was altered in the 18th and 19th centuries when it was largely rebuilt in brick. It has a slate roof and its walls were [rendered](/source/Stucco) in the 20th century.[8] The hall is reputed to have two [priest holes](/source/Priest_hole).[7]

## See also

- [Listed buildings in Tyldesley](/source/Listed_buildings_in_Tyldesley)

## References

**Notes**

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-vch_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-vch_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-vch_1-2) Farrer, William; Brownbill, J (1907), ["Tyldesley with Shakerley"](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41364), *A History of the County of Lancaster, Volume 3*, [Victoria County History](/source/Victoria_County_History), pp. 439–445, retrieved 4 June 2013

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELunn195339_2-0)** [Lunn 1953](#CITEREFLunn1953), p. 39

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELunn195353_3-0)** [Lunn 1953](#CITEREFLunn1953), p. 53

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELunn195385_4-0)** [Lunn 1953](#CITEREFLunn1953), p. 85

1. **[^](#cite_ref-inflation-UK_5-0)** UK [Consumer Price Index](/source/Consumer_Price_Index) inflation figures from 1209–2024 based on data from ["Inflation calculator"](https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator). *[Bank of England](/source/Bank_of_England)*. London. 18 February 2026. Retrieved 1 April 2026.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELunn1953105_6-0)** [Lunn 1953](#CITEREFLunn1953), p. 105

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Journal_7-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Journal_7-1) [*Tyldesley farmland search could unravel history*](http://www.leighjournal.co.uk/news/10163053.Time_Team_dig_around_hall_/), The Leigh Journal, retrieved 4 June 2013

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [Historic England](/source/Historic_England), ["Garrett Hall (1163348)"](https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1163348?section=official-list-entry), *[National Heritage List for England](/source/National_Heritage_List_for_England)*, retrieved 4 June 2013

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**Bibliography**

- Lunn, John (1953), *A Short History of the Township of Tyldesley*, Tyldesley Urban District Council

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