Oulton Estate

In the early 18th century the Oulton Estate was home to the Egerton family and comprised a manor house and a formal garden surrounded by farmland in Cheshire, England.

At that time the estate comprised a house, a formal garden and farmland totalling 231 acres (0.93 km2).

[1] Around 1752, Philip Egerton began to construct a brick wall to enclose the estate plus some additional fields, an area totalling 315 acres (1.27 km2).

[4] The plan was to do away with the formal garden, to divert the brook and, by building dams, to create two lakes connected by a cascade.

They were replaced by an entrance lodge comprising an arch with screen walls designed by Joseph Turner.

[11] In the grounds is a monument of 1846 to the memory of John Francis Egerton of the Bengal Horse Regiment, designed by Scott and Moffatt.

[12] The stable block designed by Lewis Wyatt is still present and is listed at Grade II.