Ollerton Hall is a country house in the village of Ollerton

Ollerton, Cheshire

Ollerton is a village in the Borough of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is situated approximately south east of the town of Knutsford, and has a population of 323....

, Cheshire

Cheshire

Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...

, England. Its nucleus dates from the 17th century, originally on an H-plan, followed by a succession of "rambling extensions". A plaque over the entrance is inscribed with the initials THP" (for Thomas Henry Potts) and the date 1728. The house was built originally for the Bigelow family. . The building is constructed in rendered

Stucco

Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture...

 brick with a slate

Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. The result is a foliated rock in which the foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering...

 roof. It is in two storeys and, with the later extensions, has an E-plan. The entrance front has five bays

Bay (architecture)

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, the central bay projecting forward with a gable

Gable

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. At each end is a gabled cross wing. The windows are a mixture of sashes

Sash window

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 and casements

Casement window

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. The house has been designated by English Heritage

English Heritage

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 as a Grade II listed building.