Stabling and Double Cottage, Elmhurst Hall, Litchfield

These buildings have been erected in connection with extensive alterations and additions to the hall. The outside walling is in red brick, pointed with black mortar and the roofs are covered with brown tiles. The stabling is fitted up in a very complete manner, the materials and appliances being of the best description and great attention has been paid to the drainage and ventilation. The inside walls of the stables are plastered and painted and the wall space above mangers to the height of the stall boarding is tiled with unglazed tiles of an effective though subdued pattern. The cottages are for the occupation of the coachman and gardener, so placed as to command a view of the stabling and the road by the side of same, leading to the tradesmen's entrance.

The hall has some historic interest attached to it from the fact of the Royalist party having held their secret meetings there during the siege of the close of Litchfield in 1643, which was defended by a Mr Dyatt against Lord Brook, a general of Cromwell's Parliamentary Forces, whom he killed by a shot from the battlements of the great steeple to the cathedral. The work in the buildings illustrated has been done by local contractors, and that of the hall, which includes extensive conservatories and ferneries by Mr Henry Lovatt of Wolverhampton. [British Architect 5 January 1877 Page 7]

Reference           British Architect 5 January 1877 Page 7. Illustration by T Raffles Davison - perspective and plans.

George Fox of Elmhurst Hall, formerly of "Harefield" Wilmslow. See also Memorial Church Fulshaw, built at his sole expense in memory of his first wife. It is unclear as to whether Horton and Bridgford were architects for the alterations to the hall itself and the design of the church.