Edge Hall is a 9 bedroom,
country house
An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a Townhouse (Great Britain), town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the cit ...
located at Hall Lane, Brasseys Contract Road,
Edge
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,
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's coun ...
, SY14 8LE, England. The house is recorded in the
National Heritage List for England
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as a designated Grade II*
listed building
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. It was the ancestral home of the Dod family from the twelfth century (if not earlier) to the early twentieth century. The core of the house dates from about 1600. The main part of the building dates from 1721, and additions have been made from about 1790, and later.
Its architectural style is
Jacobean.
The house is constructed in brick, standing on stone
plinth
A pedestal (from French ''piƩdestal'', Italian ''piedistallo'' 'foot of a stall') or plinth is a support at the bottom of a statue, vase, column, or certain altars. Smaller pedestals, especially if round in shape, may be called socles. In ...
s, and has a
slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic ro ...
roof.
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See also
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* Listed buildings in Edge, Cheshire
References
Further reading
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Country houses in Cheshire
Grade II* listed buildings in Cheshire
Grade II* listed houses
Jacobean architecture in the United Kingdom
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