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Musée Cuckooland
Le musée Cuckooland (en anglais Cuckooland Museum, traduisible en français : « musée du coucou »), anciennement connu sous le nom de Cuckoo Clock Museum, est un musée qui expose principalement des horloges à coucou, situé à Tabley, dans le comté du Cheshire, en Angleterre. La collection comprend 300 ans de l'histoire de ces objets, depuis les premiers exemplaires fabriqués à partir du XVIIIe siècle jusqu'au XXIe siècle.
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Cuckooland Museum
The Cuckooland Museum, previously known as the Cuckoo Clock Museum, was a museum that exhibited mainly cuckoo clocks, located in Tabley, Cheshire, England. The collection comprised 300 years of cuckoo clock-making history, since the earliest examples made in the 18th to the 21st century.
This private museum closed in 2024, the collection was sold for £1,000,000 and moved to Ireland to be exhibited in the Irish Museum of Time.
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Tabley Inferior
Tabley Inferior is a civil parish in the Borough of Cheshire East and ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. It has a population of 137. Tabley House is located there.
The Windmill public house, located near Junction 19 of the M6, is a tied house owned by Robinsons Brewery. Originally the site of a 16th-century listed building, it has been totally rebuilt. The name commemorates a racehorse once owned by former local landowner Lord de Tabley. It now has a large restaurant.
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Tabley Old Hall
The ruin of Tabley Old Hall (more properly known as Nether Tabley Old Hall) is on an island surrounded by a moat in the civil parish of Tabley Inferior, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the west of Knutsford, Cheshire, England. The ruin is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and the moated site on which it stands is a scheduled monument.
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St Peter's Church, Tabley
St Peter's Church is a chapel to the west of Tabley House near Knutsford, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
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Tabley House
Tabley House is an English country house in Tabley Inferior (Nether Tabley), some 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to the west of the town of Knutsford, Cheshire. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It was built between 1761 and 1769 for Sir Peter Byrne Leicester, to replace the nearby Tabley Old Hall, and was designed by John Carr. The Tabley House Collection exists as an exhibition showcased by the University of Manchester.
In the early part of the 19th century, three of Carr's rooms on the west side of the house were converted to form a single room, the gallery. After Sir Peter's death, the house was re-orientated and the main entrance moved from the south to the north front. The house and estate continued to be held by the Leicester family until the death of Lt. Col. John Leicester Warren in 1975.
Under the terms of his will the house, contents and estate were offered to the National Trust, which declined the offer. The house was then acquired under the terms of the will by the Victoria University of Manchester, and the house was used as a school. Since 1988 its lease has been held by a healthcare company. The 3,600-acre (1,500 ha) estate surrounding the house was sold in 2007 to the Crown Estate.
The house is symmetrical and designed in Palladian style. It is constructed in brick with stone dressings, with a large sandstone portico on the south front. On the east and west sides of the main house are pavilion wings connected to the house by curved corridors. To the west of the house is St Peter's Church, also listed Grade I, which was moved from a position adjacent to Tabley Old Hall to its present site in 1927. In the grounds are other listed buildings, including the ruins of the Old Hall.
As of 2012 the ground and top floors of the main house, together with the adjacent wings, are used as accommodation for the elderly. The reception rooms of the first floor are open to the public at advertised times, and are entered by the original stairway on the south front; they contain paintings and furniture collected by the Leicester family. Some items in the collection had formerly been displayed on this floor, whilst others were moved from elsewhere in the house. The first floor may also be hired for weddings, meetings, and conferences. It is managed by a trust, which is supported by a group of Friends and by volunteers.