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Description "AN OLD ENGLISH DWELLING: LITTLE MORETON. CHESHIRE. Little Moreton, earned after an old Cheshire family, and locally known as The Old Hall, stands near the road from Conglcton to Newcastle-under-Lyme. and is one of the oldest surviving specimens of tha picturesque, many-gabled houses of timber, wicker-work, and plaster which form not the least of the glorffcs of the Old Country- Built round a court-yard, and itself surrounded by a moat, it has at the top, forming' its chief feature, a carious gallery some seventy feet long and twelve feet broad, the roof of oak. in square compartments filled with quatre-foils, while the sides are formed of bay windows. Little Moreton dates from about the middle of the sixteenth century, and there is a tradition that it was once honoured with a visit from Queen Elizabeth, whose arms are to be seen over the mantelpiece in the dining-hall."
Date between 1897 and 1899
date QS:P,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1899-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source The Queen's Empire. Volume 1. Cassell & Co., London
Author Various photographers for Cassell & Co., London
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