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Client	Mr and Mrs Bromley-Davenport
Location	near Macclesfield, Cheshire
Status	Grade II* listed
Summary	Re-roofing, timber and masonry repair works including re-building of gables to incorporate structural restraint ties
Completion	November 2005
Build Value	£2.0m to date

Capesthorne Hall is a large mock Jacobean red brick mansion, part 18th and part 19th century, which was designed by several recognised architects in succession.

Lloyd Evans Prichard was appointed to undertake a detailed roof survey of the hall that became the broad basis for future work. It became evident that dry rot was dangerously advanced over the entrance hall and an emergency scheme was drawn up and agreed with English Heritage. This work was complicated by the decorative plaster pendant ceiling beneath. No movement in this ceiling could be made for fear of its damage - a problem which was overcome by suspending the roof structure from the reinforced roof of the temporary scaffold.

Two further larger schemes have also now been completed. These comprised dry rot repairs, masonry repairs, patent glazing overhaul, re-slating and lead renewal; all in the sum of £950,000. A fourth phase of work has now also been completed and primarily comprised re-roofing, masonry and timber repairs to the front of the main hall, and to the value of £400,000.

Current works include the development of a conversion scheme of the theatre/green room wing into offices for commercial use.