Minshull Vernon - Other Landmarks

Other Landmarks

Newfield Hall on Middlewich Road in Walley's Green is a red-brick mansion on a double pile plan which dates from the early 19th century; it is listed at grade II. The west front is flanked by stone elephants bearing howdahs, which are believed to have come from Adderley Hall near Market Drayton in Shropshire. A small red-brick summerhouse in the grounds, thought to have originally been a privy, has a slate roof topped with a ball finial. It dates from the same period as the hall, and is also listed at grade II.

Hoolgrave Manor on Eardswick Lane is a grade-II-listed hall, now a farmhouse, in brown brick on a U-shaped plan. Dating from the late 17th century, it features brick pilasters at the corners and a central slightly projecting bay with an oriel window and topped with a pediment. Eardswick Hall on Eardswick Lane is a grade-II-listed farmhouse which dates from 1849; the farmhouse and associated farm buildings enclose a courtyard. The farmhouse, in Jacobean style, is in red brick with blue-brick diapering and features cast-iron lozenge windows and decorative roof tiles. The farm buildings also have lozenge windows, as well as elaborately patterned ventilation holes. The existing farmhouse was built on the site of a 16th-century moated hall, demolished in 1849, which was partly in stone and partly timber framed; the west, north and south arms of the moat survive. Several other farmhouses within the parish are also listed at grade II: the Dairy Farm House, Park House at Walley's Green and The Pines at Bradfield Green are all on Middlewich Road, and Woodhouse Farm House is on Brookhouse Lane. All are in red brick and date from the early or mid 19th century, although The Pines also has a rear wing which dates from the early 17th century.

The Wharf on Cross Lane, adjacent to the Shropshire Union Canal, is a grade-II-listed former canal warehouse and cottage which dates from around 1830 and is attributed to Thomas Telford. In red brick, it is in late 17th century style and has three shaped gables to the main face, single shaped gables to the two ends, and a carriageway arch. Two aqueducts carrying the canal over the River Weaver are listed at grade II. Five canal bridges are also grade II listed: Eardswick Bridge, Eardswick Hall Bridge, Hollingshead Bridge, Minshullhill Bridge and bridge number 18. The aqueducts and bridges all date from 1827–33; all are in brick with stone bands and copings, and all except Minshullhill Bridge are from designs by Telford.

A double moated site with an associated fishpond is located at SJ68906029; the site dates from the medieval period and is a scheduled ancient monument. A war memorial in Bradfield Green (at SJ679587) commemorates those who died in the First World War from Minshull Vernon and the adjacent parish of Leighton. A stone cross erected in 1897 to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee stands at the junction of Middlewich Road and Brookhouse Lane in Walley's Green. The Coach and Horses public house is on Middlewich Road at Bradfield Green.