Peel has recently received planning permission to bring two Grade II Listed buildings back to life; the major part of Kempnough Hall, Worsley, Salford and Chaddock Hall, Astley, Wigan. Both properties, which date both from the 17th Century, are to be transformed into dwellings.

Kempnough Hall in Worsley is a Grade II listed building which was subdivided into three separate residences in the early 20th Century. Peel’s planning application relates to the West Wing, the major part of the 17th Century H-plan Hall. Planning permission was received at the end of 2011.

The approved scheme consists of renovating and subdividing the existing black and white house to create two units, and extending the listed Hall to create two additional dwellings with two or three bedrooms, landscaped gardens and associated parking. The original rooms are to be retained without alteration and the new wing is to be built with a number of similarities to the original plan of the Hall. The four units extend to 4,300 sq. ft. in total.

A few miles down the road, Chaddock Hall is a Grade II listed hall dating from the late 17th and 18th Centuries. The original building again formed an H on plan with two cross wings, of which the east wing was demolished in 1878 when the building was used as a school.

Peel’s planning application for the development of Chaddock Hall was approved in January 2012, and consisted of converting the Hall into two dwellings and rebuilding the East Wing to create a third. The barn will also be converted into two residences and eleven new mews houses will be created within the Hall’s grounds, giving 16 units which extend to 115,000 sq. ft. in total.