Henbury Hall, Cheshire
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Henbury Hall
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| General information | |
| Type | Country house |
| Architectural style | Neo-Palladian |
| Town or city | Henbury |
| Country | England |
| Coordinates | 53°15′11″N 2°11′51″W / 53.25318°N 2.19739°WCoordinates: 53°15′11″N 2°11′51″W / 53.25318°N 2.19739°W |
| Construction started | 1984 |
| Completed | 1986 |
| Client | Sebastian Ferranti |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Julian Bicknell |
| Other designers | Felix Kelly |
Henbury Hall is a country house located about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the southwest of the village of Henbury, Cheshire, England. The present house was built in the 1980s in Neo-Palladian style, its design being based on Palladio's Villa Rotonda.
A hall known as Henbury Hall existed in the area in the 17th century.
A Neoclassical style hall was built on the present site in 1742. It was sold by Sir William Meredith to John Bower Jodrell in 1779 for £24,000 and passed on to his son Francis Bower Jodrell in 1796. John Charles Ryle, the banker and MP for Macclesfield, bought it in 1835 for £54,000 and sold it following his bankruptcy to Thomas Marsland, first MP for Stockport (1776–1854) in 1842. The hall was remodelled in a more severe Neoclassical style in the early part of the 19th century, and then stuccoed and drastically reduced in size in the 1850s. The estate passed to his grandson Edward Marsland (died 1857) whose widow Jane Marsland was forced to sell after a disastrous flood in 1872.
It was bought for £9000 and extensively remodelled by local silk manufacturer Thomas Unett Brocklehurst. In 1876 Brocklehurst reputedly imported a pair of grey squirrels from America and released them into the estate with ultimately disastrous results for the native red squirrel. The Brocklehurst family remained in residence at Henbury for several generations.
In 1957 the estate was bought by Sir Vincent de Ferranti. He demolished the existing house and commissioned the architect Harry Fairhurst to convert the stable block for his own residential use. After the death of Sir Vincent in 1980, his son Sebastian and the designer Felix Kelly, who had already been involved with some work on the Henbury estate, came up with the idea of creating a house in the style of a Palladian temple. Kelly executed an oil painting based on Villa Rotondo, a house near Vicenza built in 1552 and designed by Andrea Palladio. Sebastian then commissioned the architect Julian Bicknell to create a design similar to Kelly's painting. The new building was completed in 1986. Sebastian lived there with his wife Gillian until his death on 15 October 2015.
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