Requisitioned during World War II, the building later became an educational establishment, now known as Terra Nova School.

[1] Built in 1779 as a country house in the Georgian style, in 1885 the Chester architect John Douglas added a south wing and a porch[2] to the mansion for the Egerton Leigh family (also of West Hall, High Legh).

Its plan consists of a five-bay central block, and north and south three-bay wings.

The middle three bays of the central block project slightly forwards and are surmounted by a pediment with an oculus in its tympanum.

He said that the old Jodrell house stood at the top end of the kitchen garden of the present Hall.

The 1871 Census records the couple at the Hall with a butler, a footman, a page boy and nine other house servants.

In 1874 he married Lady Elizabeth Hedges White (1847-1880) eldest daughter of the Earl of Bantry and sister to Olivia Charlotte Guinness, Baroness Ardilaun, the richest woman in England.

[8] In a short silent movie made in 1928 at a cricket match at Old Trafford he and his wife Lady Stockton can be seen from about the middle of the film.