This list does not contain the Grade I listed churches, or the Grade I listed buildings in the city of Chester. For these see Grade I listed churches in Cheshire and Grade I listed buildings in Chester.

The Grade I listed buildings in Cheshire, excluding those in the city of Chester, total around 80. Almost half of these are churches that are contained in a separate list.

Most Cheshire buildings are in sandstone, brick or are timber framed. Limestone is used for some buildings in the east of the county. Compared with other counties, timber framing is important. Cheshire has a higher proportion of timber-framed houses than most other English counties.[1][2]

Buildings

Name Place Map ref Date Notes Image
Dorfold Hall Acton 53°04′07″N 2°32′42″W / 53.0685°N 2.5451°W / 53.0685; -2.5451 1616–21 Built for Ralph Wilbraham.[3] Considered to be one of the two finest Jacobean houses in Cheshire.[4][5] Dorfold Hall
Adlington Hall Adlington 53°19′15″N 2°08′41″W / 53.3209°N 2.1446°W / 53.3209; -2.1446 15–16th century; mid-18th century Manor house partly timber framed, partly brick.[6][7]
Chorley Old Hall Alderley Edge 53°18′00″N 2°14′43″W / 53.2999°N 2.2452°W / 53.2999; -2.2452 c. 1330, mid-16th century Manor house with one range built in brick and the other timber framed.[8]
Iron Bridge Aldford 53°08′05″N 2°52′15″W / 53.1347°N 2.870822°W / 53.1347; -2.870822 1824 Bridge over the River Dee on the Buerton Approach to Eaton Hall.[9] Built for the 1st Marquis of Westminster.[10]
Cruck barn Arley Hall 53°19′27″N 2°29′24″W / 53.3242°N 2.4901°W / 53.3242; -2.4901 Early 16th century Former barn converted into an indoor riding school.[11][12]
Moss Hall Audlem 52°59′35″N 2°30′55″W / 52.9930°N 2.5152°W / 52.9930; -2.5152 1616 Timber framed manor house, extensively renovated in 1902.[13][14]
Beeston Castle Beeston 53°07′44″N 2°41′29″W / 53.129012°N 2.691297°W / 53.129012; -2.691297 1220s Built by Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester. Both the walls of the outer bailey, and the walls, towers and gatehouse of the inner baileys are listed at Grade I.[15] Partly demolished after the Civil War.[16][17][18]
Brereton Hall Brereton 53°10′44″N 2°19′57″W / 53.1789°N 2.3324°W / 53.1789; -2.3324 1586 Built for Sir William Brereton.[19] Alterations made in the 19th century,[20] including removal of the cupolas.[21]
Highfields Buerton 52°57′55″N 2°29′08″W / 52.9654°N 2.4855°W / 52.9654; -2.4855 1615 Built for the Dodds family. Additions made in 1750 and 1897.[22]
Sankey Viaduct Burtonwood 53°26′51″N 2°39′03″W / 53.44745°N 2.65076°W / 53.44745; -2.65076 1830 By George Stephenson for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Earliest major railway viaduct in the world.[23]
Lower Carden Hall Carden 53°03′49″N 2°48′11″W / 53.0637°N 2.8030°W / 53.0637; -2.8030 15th century and later Country house most of which is timber framed.[24]
Combermere Abbey Combermere Park 52°59′37″N 2°36′50″W / 52.993611°N 2.613889°W / 52.993611; -2.613889 1563 Country house, formerly abbot's house. Extended 1814–20.[25][26]
Little Moreton Hall Southwest of Congleton 53°07′38″N 2°15′06″W / 53.1272°N 2.2518°W / 53.1272; -2.2518 15th century One of Britain's finest timber-framed moated manor houses.[27][28]
Crewe Hall Crewe Green 53°04′58″N 2°24′00″W / 53.0827°N 2.3999°W / 53.0827; -2.3999 1615–36 Built for Sir Randolph Crewe, extended in the late 18th century and extensively restored after a fire in 1866.[29] Considered to be one of the two finest Jacobean houses in Cheshire.[4][30]
Lyme Hall Disley 53°20′17″N 2°03′17″W / 53.3381°N 2.0547°W / 53.3381; -2.0547 c. 1570 with later additions The largest house in Cheshire, built for the Legh family.[31][32]
Delves Hall Doddington 53°01′11″N 2°26′08″W / 53.0197°N 2.4356°W / 53.0197; -2.4356 1364 Fortified tower built by Sir John Delves.[33][34] Delves Hall, Doddington
Doddington Hall Doddington 53°00′53″N 2°26′03″W / 53.0148°N 2.4342°W / 53.0148; -2.4342 1777–98 Built for Revd Sir Thomas Broughton in neoclassical style.[35][36]
Golden Gates, Eaton Hall Eaton Park 53°08′25″N 2°52′45″W / 53.1404°N 2.8791°W / 53.1404; -2.8791 18th century,
c. 1880 		The central pair of gates (Golden Gates) and the adjacent screen railings are by Robert and John Davies, 18th century.
Side gates, screens and lodges by Alfred Waterhouse, c. 1880.[37]
Farndon Bridge Farndon 53°05′00″N 2°52′47″W / 53.083373°N 2.879820°W / 53.083373; -2.879820 1339 Crosses the River Dee and the England-Wales border between the villages of Farndon and Holt.[9][38]
Gawsworth Old Hall Gawsworth 53°13′26″N 2°09′50″W / 53.2238°N 2.1638°W / 53.2238; -2.1638 1480,
remodelled 1701 		Partly timber framed, partly in brick, for the Fitton family.[39][40]
Old Rectory Gawsworth 53°13′26″N 2°10′00″W / 53.2240°N 2.1667°W / 53.2240; -2.1667 15th–16th century Timber framed with the hall open to the roof. North wing added 1872.[41]
Originally a rectory, now a private house.[42][43] 		Gawsworth Old Rectory
Belmont Hall Great Budworth 53°18′04″N 2°31′11″W / 53.3011°N 2.5198°W / 53.3011; -2.5198 1755 Country house by James Gibbs; now a school.[44][45]
Halton Castle Halton 53°19′59″N 2°41′45″W / 53.3331°N 2.6957°W / 53.3331; -2.6957 c. 1070 Castle on a sandstone outcrop. Now a ruin.[46]
Haslington Hall Haslington 53°06′02″N 2°22′39″W / 53.1006°N 2.3776°W / 53.1006; -2.3776 1545 with later alterations Timber-framed house built by Admiral Sir Francis Vernon.[47][48]
Ince Manor Ince 53°16′59″N 2°49′37″W / 53.2831°N 2.8270°W / 53.2831; -2.8270 Late 13th century and later Former monastic grange. The hall and the monastery cottages remain.[49][50]
Lovell Telescope Jodrell Bank Observatory,
near Goostrey 		53°14′13″N 2°18′26″W / 53.237°N 2.30715°W / 53.237; -2.30715 1952–57 When built, it was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world.[51]
Lymm Cross Lymm 53°22′52″N 2°28′39″W / 53.3811°N 2.4776°W / 53.3811; -2.4776 17th century Restored 1897.[52]
Crown Hotel Nantwich 53°04′02″N 2°31′21″W / 53.0673°N 2.5226°W / 53.0673; -2.5226 1580s Timber framed inn built after the fire of 1583. Now a public house and hotel.[53][54]
Churche's Mansion Nantwich 53°03′56″N 2°30′52″W / 53.0655°N 2.5144°W / 53.0655; -2.5144 1577 Timber framed mansion house. Pevsner describes it as "an outstanding piece of decorated half-timber architecture".[55][56]
Peckforton Castle Peckforton 53°07′03″N 2°41′56″W / 53.1175°N 2.6990°W / 53.1175; -2.6990 1844–50 Country house built in the style of a medieval castle by Anthony Salvin for John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache.[57] Now a hotel.[58][59]
Stable Block Peover Hall 53°15′26″N 2°20′30″W / 53.2573°N 2.3418°W / 53.2573; -2.3418 1654 A gift from Mrs Ellen Mainwaring to her son Thomas. Elaborate screens to stalls.[60]
Norton Priory Near Runcorn 53°20′32″N 2°40′48″W / 53.3423°N 2.6799°W / 53.3423; -2.6799 13th century and later A priory, then an abbey and later a country house. Now a ruin and a museum.[61]
Gatehouse Saighton 53°09′01″N 2°50′03″W / 53.1503°N 2.8342°W / 53.1503; -2.8342 c. 1489 Monastic grange for St Werburgh's Abbey, Chester. Only the gatehouse remains and this is now part of a school.[62][63][64]
Crosses Sandbach 53°08′38″N 2°21′44″W / 53.14402°N 2.36209°W / 53.14402; -2.36209 9th century Pair of carved Anglo-Saxon crosses.[65]
Old Hall Hotel Sandbach 53°08′38″N 2°21′47″W / 53.144°N 2.363°W / 53.144; -2.363 1656 Large timber-framed building, now a hotel.[66]
Sutton Hall Sutton Weaver 53°18′24″N 2°41′04″W / 53.3067°N 2.6844°W / 53.3067; -2.6844 Late 15th or early 16th century, later extended Internally are two superimposed great halls.[67]
Tabley House Knutsford 53°17′35″N 2°25′21″W / 53.2931°N 2.4225°W / 53.2931; -2.4225 1767 Palladian mansion by John Carr. Now owned by the University of Manchester.[68][69]
Tatton Hall Knutsford 53°19′49″N 2°23′01″W / 53.3304°N 2.3835°W / 53.3304; -2.3835 1791; completed 19th century Neoclassical country house.[70]
Utkinton Hall Utkinton 53°10′37″N 2°40′14″W / 53.1769°N 2.6705°W / 53.1769; -2.6705 Medieval core but most of it dates from the early 17th century Large manor house for the Done family.[71]
Town Hall Warrington 53°23′23″N 2°35′59″W / 53.3897°N 2.5997°W / 53.3897; -2.5997 1750 House for Thomas Patten by James Gibbs. Pevsner describes it as "the finest house of its date in south Lancashire".[72]
The detached service wings are also listed at Grade I.[73][74][75]
Winnington Hall Winnington 53°16′07″N 2°32′01″W / 53.2686°N 2.5336°W / 53.2686; -2.5336 c.1600; 1775 Older wing timber framed; newer wing in stone by Samuel Wyatt.[76]

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