Stayley Hall

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name=Stayley Hall
location_town=Stalybridge, Greater Manchester
location_country=England
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Stayley Hall, also known as Staley Hall, is a Grade II* Listed Building in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester (gbmapping|SJ97579969).cite web|title=Staley Hall |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=212619 |publisher=Images of England|accessdate=2008-01-29] The structure dates to at least the 16th century – it appears on maps from 1577 and 1580 – but may be older.cite book |author=Mike Nevell |date=1991 |title=Tameside 1066-1700 |publisher=Tameside Metropolitan Borough and University of Manchester Archaeological Unit |pages=112, 141 |isbn=1-871324-02-5] The first records of the "de Stavelegh" family as Lords of the Manor date from the early 13th century.

Stayley Hall is referred to in the diaries of Sir Ralph Staveley in the early 15th century. The hall was originally timber framed, but was stone-clad during the 17th century. It is situated on a knoll making defence of the building a relatively easy affair. The external walls and the roofing slabs are made from locally quarried gritstone. The inside of the building has been altered as parts of it were let as cottage tenements and the plaster has fallen off showing the original lattices of wicker work and clay daub. Part of the staircase still remained in 1871 although the floor was dilapidated even then.

Sir Ralph Staley had no male heirs and after his death his daughter, Elizabeth Staley, married Sir Thomas Assheton, uniting the manors of Ashton and Staley. Elizabeth and Thomas had no sons. Margaret, the eldest of their two daughters married Sir William Booth of Dunham Massey The younger daughter, Elizabeth, was widowed without children. She continued to live at Staley Hall until her death in 1553. In her will she left her share of the lordships to the Booths.

In 2004 the Metropolitan Borough Council announced that they had granted permission to a developer to build 16 homes next to Staley Hall. A condition of the planning consent was that the hall be restored. [cite web|title=New start for Staley Hall |author=Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council |url=http://public.tameside.gov.uk/pressreleases/f1030pressreleasestory107.asp?story=2703 |publisher=Tameside.gov.uk |date=2004-04-28 |accessdate=2008-01-27 ] As of 2008 the hall is still deteriorating. It is now listed as being in "very bad" condition on the English Heritage buildings at risk register. [ [http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConBar.6039 Staley Hall and adjoining west wing : English Heritage : English Heritage ] ]

ee also

*Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester

References

External links

* [http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.1424 Buildings at Risk register]
* [http://www.flickr.com/groups/buildingsatrisk/ Flickr 'buildings at risk' image gallery/group.]