Poole, Cheshire - Other Landmarks

Other Landmarks

Poole Hall on Cinder Lane (SJ6455755137) was built in 1812–7 for William Massey of Chester, possibly to the design of Lewis Wyatt, on the site of an earlier building. It is listed at grade II*. The two-storey building is in red brick with sandstone trimming, and features a semicircular porch with four unfluted Ionic columns. Nikolaus Pevsner considered the interior to be "exceptionally fine". The park was designed by John Webb; it includes an L-shaped ornamental pond, possibly the remains of a moat to the earlier building. A timber-framed barn to the north of the hall, dating from the late 17th century, is also listed at grade II.

Two further timber-framed, grade-II-listed buildings survive within the civil parish; both are on Wettenhall Road. Poole Bank Farmhouse (SJ6404055382) is a T-shaped, two-storey building with a tile roof. Badger Point (SJ6370955723) is a single-storey building with a thatched roof. Both date from the mid-17th century and feature small framing with a brick infill. The grade-II-listed Poole Farmhouse (SJ6401155791) originally dates from the mid-17th century; a two-storey, T-shaped building in red brick, it features pilasters at its corners.

A grade-II-listed pinfold or cattle pound, dating from the early 19th century, stands at the junction of Wettenhall Road and Pool Old Hall Lane, near Poole Bank (SJ6391855431). Constructed of red sandstone blocks, the pinfold is a rectangular enclosure of around 3 metres2; the gate is missing. Pinfolds were maintained by the lord of the manor; stray livestock were rounded up and confined in the enclosure by an official termed a "pinder", with a fine being imposed for their release.