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Client	Private
Location	Cheshire
Status	Grade I listed
Summary	Repair of timber frame, re-instatement of daub and lime plaster panels, re-roofing
Completion	October 2008
Build Value	Undisclosed

The Great Hall at Adlington was built by Thomas Legh in the Fifteenth century. The hall was modified and extended through subsequent centuries to leave a complex ensemble laid out around a central courtyard. The earlier parts of the Hall are of timber frame construction. The maintenance of the building throughout the Twentieth century was carried out using inappropriate materials. During this period the perimeter gutters that had been added during the Nineteenth century were also removed. The practical result of these actions was that a steady ingress of water occurred and the frame began to deteriorate behind the impervious cementitious render infill panels.

This problem is thought to affect the whole of the timber framed section of the house.

Lloyd Evans Prichard became involved at Adlington when it was determined that English Heritage would support an investigatory scheme to the timber frame. A modest bay to the East Range was chosen and work is now complete to that area. A second phase was consequently scheduled and carried out in 2006.

The third phase completed in October 2007 and the current phase has just begun. The necessary work on all the phases include the careful opening up of all infill panels to the frame retaining any historic daubs for reuse, repairing the timber frame, re-rendering panels in the correct and appropriate materials, as well as re-roofing, overhauling windows and re-guttering.