Dorfold Hall
A brick mansion of 1616, combining Jacobean architecture with later changes to its interiors and forecourt.
Dorfold Hall est un château situé à Acton, England, au Royaume-Uni. Le registre le désigne comme « Grade I listed building ». Données issues de Wikidata.
Register entry — DORFOLD HALL. National Heritage List for England reference: 1312869. Recorded designation: Grade I listed building.
First listed: 1952-06-10. This is the listing date, not a construction date.
Source: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1312869
The register identity was cross-checked against the official record name, coordinates and grade on 21 October 2026.
An English editorial overview and visiting guidance are available in this dossier. Check the linked official information for current opening times, access and booking arrangements.
Fiche
- Jacobean mansion with later forecourt and interior alterations
- Royaume-Uni
- Acton
- Cheshire
- other
- 1952-06-10
Lecture éditoriale
Historic England dates Dorfold Hall to 1616 for Ralph Wilbraham. Its account identifies patterned brickwork, stone dressings, mullioned and transomed windows and prominent shaped gables within a double-pile plan.
Later pavilions and screen walls dated 1824 helped enclose the cobbled forecourt. The interiors also changed: the listing distinguishes eighteenth-century decorative work from a Jacobean staircase and the Great Chamber's early-seventeenth-century plaster ceiling. These elements reveal successive campaigns of adaptation rather than an entirely unchanged original mansion.
The estate's current commercial website promotes weddings and events, including facilities in the coach house and wider grounds. Those descriptions should not automatically be assigned to the historic mansion's rooms.
Our editorial reading: read the main house and its later enclosure together, while keeping their different dates visible.
Sources: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1312869 and https://crippsandco.com/dorfold (checked 21 October 2026).
Conseils de visite
Contact the current operator about the particular building and spaces included in any visit or booking. A wedding-venue viewing does not establish unrestricted public admission to the historic hall or its listed interiors.
Localisation et visite
Confirmez les horaires, les conditions d’accès et les réservations auprès du lieu lui-même. Ces indications suivent la notice source.
Sources et crédits
Notice source : Wikidata
Notice source : Eigen redactie
Notice source : Eigen redactie
Notice source : National Heritage List for England (Historic England)
Notice source : Wikimedia Commons
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