The Seneschal's House stands at the corner of Halton Brow and Main Street in Runcorn, Liverpool City Region. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The house is dated 1598, which makes it the oldest standing building in Runcorn.
Originally known as "John King's New House", it was built by the judge John King, who was called to the bar in London in the late 16th century. The house was inhabited originally by a seneschal, which was the owner John King. In the mid 20th century, Geoffrey Barraclough, a Professor of History at Liverpool University, coined the current name of the house. The building was latterly a farmhouse.
The house is built with sandstone and it has a stone slate roof with a sandstone ridge. It is two storeys with an attic roof. At the front are three projections rising to the full height of the house. The central projection contains a porch, while the others have bay windows with mullions. Each projection is surmounted by a gable, and there are gables at each end of the house with corbels and moulded copings with finials at their summits.
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Written by Nicolo Ciampini
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