Mottram Old Hall, Tameside

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Mottram Old Hall is a Grade-II-listed[1] two-storey country house standing in a 6-hectare (15-acre) triangular park between Coach Lane and Old Hall Lane in Mottram in Longdendale, Greater Manchester, England.

The house was built in about 1825 in ashlar with a slate roof. Previously known as Ivydene, it incorporates a large rear wing built in 1727. The tree-lined drive to the main entrance has a mausoleum to one side.

Once owned by the Hollingworth family, it was renovated by the Hadfield family. It is still privately owned and not open to the public.

History

In 1800 Samuel Hadfield bought the original hall from the Hollingworths and on his death in 1807 left it to his nephew George, who died there. After George's death, his brother Samuel erected a statue of him at the hall but only the plaque survives. The hall, together with the Hadfield estate at Hadfield, passed after 1844 to George Woodhead, son of his George Hadfield's sister Martha. On his death and that of his sister Betsy Woodhead in 1861, both of whom were childless, the hall was inherited by John Wood of Arden Hall, Stockport. After passing through various other owners Mottram Old Hall was purchased in 1962 by Judge Philip Curtis.[2]

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