Ince Manor

The remains of the manor house, consisting of the old hall and the monastery cottages, are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building,[1] and a scheduled monument[2][3] It is one of only two surviving monastic manorial buildings in Cheshire, the other being Saighton Grange Gatehouse.

The engraving dating from the early 18th century by the topographical draughtsmen and engraver-printsellers Samuel and Nathaniel Buck (pictured) shows the cottages to be a ruin.

Ormerod described the surviving buildings in the 19th century which were standing in grounds of "rather more than an acre" with a stone wall to the south and the remains of a moat on the other sides.

[7] When the site was visited by the Chester Historic Buildings Preservation Trust in the early 1990s, the hall was protected by a 19th-century roof.

[6] Adjacent to the manor are a pair of vertical stones embedded in the ground with grooves for timber stocks which are listed at Grade II.

Ince Manor Hall April 2008
October 2014