Swettenham Hall

[6] The second door head tablet with the initials S-TF which stands for Thomas and Frances with the date 1696.

It appears that it was he who added the additions with the stucco, canted bays and castellated entrance front.

The couple had no children so when Thomas died in 1861 his wife Anna Maria continued to live at the Hall until her death in 1876.

After she died the property was inherited by Thomas’s nephew Robert Warren who added Swettenham to his name.

He went to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and in 1889 was gazette as a Lieutenant and rose rapidly through the ranks.

[9] For some years before Thomas’s death the Hall had been rented to Harold Lucas Behrens.

[10] Major Thomas Clayton Toler (1862-1940) was the Chairman of Cheshire County Council.

His first wife died in 1899 and in 1901 he married Gertrude Marianne Wilkinson (1875-1962) The couple had five children one of whom was a war hero and received the Military Cross in 1945.

[11] In 1964 at the age of 28 Robert Sangster (1936-2004), a well known thoroughbred and racehorse owner bought the property[12] and turned it into a stud.

His first wife Christine Street (1938-2000) who was a fashion model[13] lived with him at Swettenham Hall until 1975.