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Henbury Hall is a country house about 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of the village of Henbury in Cheshire, England. The present house was built during the 1980s in New Classical style. Designed by Julian Bicknell, it is based on Andrea Palladio's Villa Rotonda.
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Henbury, Cheshire
Henbury is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 census, the entire civil parish had a population of 594. The village is 3.8 miles (6.1 km) west of Macclesfield on the A537.
Henbury became a civil parish in 1845. It has an Anglican church, the Church of St Thomas, two pubs, and a grocery.
The village hall hosts a number of functions throughout the year with an active social committee. There is also a Millennium Green in Henbury.
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St Thomas' Church, Henbury
St Thomas' Church is in Church Lane in the village of Henbury, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Macclesfield, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
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Whirley Hall
Whirley Hall is a country house standing to the north of the village of Henbury, Cheshire, England. The house dates from about 1670. Additions and alterations were made during the 18th century and in the 1950s, when the house was restored and wings were added at the sides. The house is constructed in brick with buff sandstone dressings, and has a Kerridge stone-slate roof with stone ridges. It has three storeys and symmetrical five-bay front. Between the storeys, and above the top storey, are brick bands. The lower two storeys contain 20th-century wooden-framed mullioned and transomed windows. In the top storey are two-light casement windows. Above these are two shaped gables, each surmounted by an obelisk finial, and containing an elliptical window. There are single-storey, two-bay extensions on each side of the house. In the roof of the house is a stone inscribed with the date 1599, which is considered to have been removed from an earlier timber-framed house. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The gate pier in front of the house is a Grade II listed building.
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Birtles Hall
Birtles Hall is a country house in the parish of Over Alderley, Cheshire, England. It was built in about 1819 for the West Indies merchant Robert Hibbert.
The interior of the house was badly damaged by fire in 1938, and it was reconstructed by the Arts and Crafts architect James Henry Sellers. The exterior is constructed in buff ashlar sandstone. The roofs are of Welsh slate, and there are three brick chimneys. The house is in two storeys, with a south front of five bays. Along the top of the south front is a plain frieze and a cornice supporting a balustrade. Protruding from the central bay of the lower storey is a porch with Ionic columns and a balustrade. Figueirdo and Treuherz describe the style as "severe Neoclassical". The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. Also listed Grade II are terrace walls in front of the house, and the stable block.