Restoration

The Hall on September 6th 2005

The Trust was formed in September 1980 to restore and maintain Middleton Hall.The Hall's four faces are shown above. The west wing, shown at the right, is of the Georgian period. Its front, shown at the right in the top picture joins on to the Great Hall, which is rendered to a Georgian finish, but is of Tudor origin. To the left in the top picture is the timbered Jettied Building, a Tudor cottage. Following around to the east wing a seventeenth century cottage, dated ca 1647, adjoins a stone building of c13 origin, which in turn connects to a much modified group of buildings, mainly of seventeenth century origin. Along the south face, which can barely be seen from the south because of the willow trees that have grown on the banks of a pool left by gravel extraction, the seventeenth century buildings link finally to the last of the Georgian additions, the south dining room.

The restoration of each of these buldings can be followed in the following sections.