Tatton Hall

Tatton Hall
South face of Tatton Hall
Location	Tatton Park, Cheshire, England
Coordinates	53°19′49″N 2°23′01″W / 53.3304°N 2.3835°W / 53.3304; -2.3835Coordinates: 53°19′49″N 2°23′01″W / 53.3304°N 2.3835°W / 53.3304; -2.3835
OS grid reference	SJ 745 815
Founded	1770s
Built for	Samuel Egerton
Architect	Samuel Wyatt Lewis William Wyatt G. H. Stokes
Architectural style(s)	Neoclassical
Governing body	National Trust Cheshire East Council
Listed Building – Grade I
Designated	5 March 1959
Reference no.	1329670
Location in Cheshire

Tatton Hall is a country house in Tatton Park near Knutsford, Cheshire, England. It is financed on behalf of the National Trust by Cheshire East Council. The house is designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building. It is open for visiting by the general public at advertised times.

The original manor house in Tatton Park was Tatton Old Hall. Around 1716 a new hall was built in a more elevated position on the site of the present mansion some 0.75 miles (1 km) to the west. This house was a rectangular block of seven bays with three storeys. From 1758 the owner Samuel Egerton began to make improvements to the house, in particular a rococo interior to his drawing room (now the dining room), designed by Thomas Farnolls Pritchard. During the 1770s Samuel Egerton commissioned Samuel Wyatt to design a house in Neoclassical style. Both Samuel Egerton and Samuel Wyatt died before the house was finished, and it was completed (1807–16), on a reduced scale, by Wilbraham Egerton and Lewis William Wyatt, Samuel Wyatt's nephew. Samuel Wyatt had planned a house of eleven bays, but Lewis reduced this to seven. Wilbraham bought a number of fine paintings, and many items of furniture made by Gillows of Lancaster. In 1861–62 an upper floor was added to the family wing to a design by G. H. Stokes. In 1884 a family entrance hall was added to the north face and a smoking room to the extreme west of the family wing. Also in 1884 electricity was installed in the hall.