Winnington Hall

Winnington Hall
Location in Cheshire
Location	Winnington, Northwich, Cheshire, England
Coordinates	53°16′07″N 2°32′01″W / 53.2686°N 2.5336°W / 53.2686; -2.5336Coordinates: 53°16′07″N 2°32′01″W / 53.2686°N 2.5336°W / 53.2686; -2.5336
OS grid reference	SJ 645 747
Built for	Warburton family
Restored by	Darcy Braddell
Architect	Samuel Wyatt
Listed Building – Grade I
Designated	24 March 1950
Reference no.	1310245

Winnington Hall is a former country house in Winnington, now a suburb of Northwich, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The building is in effect two houses joined together, an older modest timber-framed house, and a newer, more elegant, stone house.

The original timber-framed house was built in the late 16th or early 17th century for a member of the Warburton family of Warburton and Arley, Cheshire. Originally in three bays, it was extended by another two bays for Thomas Warburton, whose wife Anne was joint heir to the Penrhyn estate near Bangor in North Wales. A brick service wing was added to the north of the house in the early 18th century. Thomas' son, Hugh, had only one child, a daughter, Anne Susanna. In 1765 Anne Susanna married the other heir to the Penrhyn estate, Richard Pennant, who later became the 1st Baron Penrhyn. In 1775 Pennant commissioned Samuel Wyatt to design what became the larger stone extension to the house. In a possible attempt to harmonise the older part of the house with the stone extension, in the early 19th century the timber-framed wing was coated with roughcast and castellated. In 1809 the Winnington estate was sold to John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley. Stanley's home, Alderley Hall, had burnt down 30 years previously, and his family were living in temporary accommodation on the Alderley estate. However Stanley spent much of his time in London, and the condition of the building deteriorated. In 1817 the Stanley family moved back to Alderley where a new hall was being built. Stanley's son, Edward, moved into the house in 1842, but left for Alderley Hall in 1850 after succeeding to the barony.