Nantwich, Cheshire - Sweetbriar Hall - Kingsley postcard c.1980s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Sweetbriar Hall, Nantwich, Cheshire
• Publisher:  Kingsley Publications
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  18p olive green Machin
• Postmark(s):  not present but posted as has blue dots, which I think were used in the 1980s
• Sent to:  Deanbrook Road, Edgeware, Middlesex
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Sweetbriar Hall (also Sweet Briar Hall and other variants) is a timber-framed, ""black and white"" mansion house in the town of Nantwich, Cheshire, England, at 65 and 67 Hospital Street. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.

The hall was built for the Woodhey branch of the Wilbraham family. The original date is probably 15th century, and the hall is often considered the oldest half-timbered building in the town not to have been encased in brick. The external appearance is early Elizabethan, with both ornamental panelling and close studding. It was recorded in 1577, and is known to have survived the fire of 1583, which destroyed the adjacent building. It has been substantially altered from its original form, in particular with the addition of a pentagonal bay in the late 16th or early 17th centuries. The timber frame was covered with render in the 18th century, and by the mid-20th century the hall had become very dilapidated. Restoration work was carried out by James Edleston in the 1960s.

Joseph Priestley, scientist and philosopher, is believed to have lived at the hall in 1758–61, while he was minister at the nearby Unitarian chapel. Sir William Bowman, histologist, ophthalmologist and surgeon, was born there in 1816.

Sweetbriar Hall was built for the Woodhey branch of the Wilbraham family, later associated with the country mansions of Woodhey Hall and Dorfold Hall. One of the leading Nantwich families, they had owned land in the town since the 14th century.^[1][2][3] It was known as Sweetbriar Hall in the Elizabethan era.^[2] The date of the original building is often given as 1450;^[1][4][5] some sources, however, estimate it as late 15th century to early 16th century.^[6][7][8][a] The appearance of the building is typical early Elizabethan, that is mid-16th century.^[1][9] The hall is generally considered to be the oldest half-timbered building in the town that has not been encased in brick.^[10][11]

Hospital Street was the main road between London and Chester; the medieval St Nicholas Hospital, which gave the street its name, remained in use until 1548.^[12][13] Sweetbriar Hall would originally have stood at the eastern edge of the town.^[14] The north side of Hospital Street, where Sweetbriar Hall is located, was only sparsely occupied in the Tudor era; the south side of the street was marshy and little built on.^[15] Much of the area north of the hall between Hospital Street and Beam Street was owned by Combermere Abbey until its dissolution in 1538, being used as orchards, fields and gardens; it remained largely gardens and crofts when the first map of Nantwich was drawn in 1794.^[16][17] Other early buildings at the eastern end of Hospital Street include number 116, a house of Georgian appearance on the south side, which incorporates a substantially older timber-framed house, parts of which have been dated to the late 15th century.^[18][19]

Rebuilding of the hall is recorded in 1577, at the date when Churche's Mansion was built further east along Hospital Street.^[2] The hall is known to have survived the fire of 1583, which reached the adjacent building and destroyed much of the centre of the town.^[8][20][21] Richard Wilbraham's journal entry for the fire records:

...there was consumed by the same ffyeer ... all the hospell strete vpon both sydes past the myddest thereoff & dyd staye at the howse of Thoms. wryghte opon y^e sowth syde of the strete: And at another howse of Mr. Wylbrahms. of Woodehey wherein Randull Maynewaring dwelled upon y^e north syde.^[21]

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period=1945 - present

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