Wythenshawe Hall 3.94

Wythenshawe Hall is a 16th-century medieval timber-framed historic house and former manor house in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England, five miles (8 km) south of Manchester city centre in Wythenshawe Park. The building was badly damaged in an arson fire in March 2016 and is being repaired.HistoryA pre-1300 charter mentions an enclosed deer park in Wythenshawe where the Tatton family owned land in 1297. Around 1540, Robert Tatton of Chester built Wythenshawe Hall as the Tatton family residence. The timber-framed Tudor house was the home of the family for almost 400 years. and may originally have had a moat.The hall was besieged during the English Civil War over the winter of 1643–44 by Cromwell's Parliamentarian forces. It was defended by Royalists led by Robert Tatton until the Roundheads brought two cannons to the hall from Manchester, leading to the Royalist surrender on 27 February 1644. After the civil war the Tattons expanded their Wythenshawe estate to about 2500acre.In 1924, Robert Henry Grenville Tatton inherited the Wythenshawe estate. There was interest in the estate and the surrounding area from Manchester Corporation, who wanted land to build a garden suburb, ostensibly to rehouse tenants from slum clearance. By April 1926, Wythenshawe Hall and 250acre of its surrounding parkland were sold to Ernest Simon and his wife who donated them to Manchester Corporation "to be used solely for the public good". Later that year, the corporation purchased the rest of the estate. The corporation went on to build one of the largest housing estates in Europe on the land.