Toft Hall is a country house in Toft

Toft, Cheshire

Toft is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is located immediately to the south of Knutsford and is split by the A50 road to more southern Holmes Chapel...

, 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. It was built in the later part of the 17th century "to an extremely old-fashioned layout". Additions and alterations have been made to it during the following three centuries. It is constructed in brick, which has been rendered

Stucco

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, with stone dressings and 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 has four-storey towers. The house has been designated by English Heritage

English Heritage

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 as a Grade II* listed building. Its stable block has been listed separately at Grade II.