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Rode Hall is a grade-II*-listed, Georgian country house in the parish of Odd Rode, near Rode Heath.Built for Randle Wilbraham by 1708, it remains the Wilbraham family seat. . Originally two separate houses in red brick with ashlar dressings, the initial seven-bay building, with a central octagonal bellcote and small dome, was joined in the early 1800s to a five-bay building designed by William ...
Nantwich (/ ˈ n æ n t w ɪ tʃ / NAN-twitch) is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It has among the highest concentrations of listed buildings in England, with notably good examples of Tudor and Georgian architecture.
The son of Hugh Malbank, 2nd Baron, and his wife, Petronilla, he held substantial lands in and around the salt town of Nantwich, amounting to much of the Nantwich hundred. His father founded Combermere Abbey in Cheshire in around 1133, and William Malbank is known to have confirmed the foundation and added further gifts.
20 High Street is a grade-II-listed Georgian building in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, which dates from the late 18th century. [1] It stands on the west side of the High Street (at SJ6505352367 ). In the 18th century, the building was used as an inn and a venue for cock-fighting ; it later became a private house and subsequently a shop.
William Malbank, 1st Baron of Wich Malbank (c.1050 – before 1109) was a baron who travelled to Nantwich in Cheshire, England, and built a castle there. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He also founded the Hospital of St Nicholas there in 1083–84.
A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich, or Wich Malbank, in the County Palatine of Chester (2nd edn) (E. J. Morten; 1972) (ISBN 0-901598-24-0) Lake J. The Great Fire of Nantwich (Shiva Publishing; 1983) (ISBN 0 906812 57 7) Pevsner N, Hubbard E. The Buildings of England: Cheshire (Penguin Books; 1971) (ISBN 0 14 071042 6)
Cheshire Cat (Thursday Next series), a fictional cat in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next novels; Cheshire Cat (comics), a fictional character; Cheshire Cat idiom or opaque pointer, a computer programming technique; Cheshire Cat Eating House, a cafe in the Widows' Almshouses, Nantwich, Cheshire, England; Quantum Cheshire cat, a phenomenon in ...
Churche's Mansion is a timber-framed, black-and-white Elizabethan mansion house at the eastern end of Hospital Street in Nantwich, Cheshire, England.The Grade I listed building dates from 1577, and is one of the few to have survived the Great Fire of Nantwich in 1583.