Hale Manor

When the Fleetwood-Hesketh familly moved to Hale Village in 1947, Hale Hall was almost beyond repair and so they took up residence in the old Parsonage House which is nowadays known as The Manor House This Building overlooks one of the village greens and although the manor is much smaller than Hale Hall was it has a almost imposing grandure as the Hall once did have. The manor was much smaller than what you see today, as around the 18th century a west faced was added by the Rev. William Langford, his coat of arms and monogram are over the front entereance.

The imposing front hides two gables of which the south is the

smallest and may be 17th century. This part of the manor house

is originally three stories high, an arrangment still in excistance at

the back, but which has been altered at the front and is now two

stories of higher rooms. The north gable end is lager and of a

later date than the south and is only two stories high.

By the 19th century the building was occupied as a farmhouse

and wasknown as Manor Farm. During the war the Air Force and

the Home-Gaurd were occupying the building. In 1947 when

Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh and his familly moved to Hale Village,

the entire facade was covered in ivy. The ivy was removed,

and revealed the grandure of the manor for more than nearly

100 years.

Hale Manor House is located on Church road. From the green

in front of the manor, looking left you can see St Mary`s Church,

looking right, you can seethe Childe Of Hales Cottage, both

buildings no more than 100 meters from Hale Manor House.

  In early twilight I can hear

  A faintly-ticking clock,

  While near and far and far and near

  Is Liverpool baroque.

  And when the movement meets the hour

  To tell it, stroke by stroke,

  "Rococo", says the pendulum,

  "Baroque, baroque, baroak".

  Entrusted vases crowd the hall,

  Dark paintings grace the stairs

  And from the wild wind`s harp withal

  Sound soft Lancastrian airs.

On a bend sable three garbs or-

Th`achievements hold my gaze;

Though fierce without the tempests roar

The banner scarcely aways.

O`er Mersey and mud and Mersey flood,

Rusts-red above the holly

How trimly rides the brick facade,

As flims;y as a folly.

The Manor House, the Green, the Church-

From Runcorn to West Kirby

You will not find howe`er you search

So sweet a rus in urbe.

Hale Village Online © 2005-2008

The website for the historical village of Hale in Halton