Jenklets - Flixton House Traditional Cache
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Flixton House, Built in 1806
This is one of the Urmston Urban Explore Caches.
This Cache is a Quick and Easy.
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This cache meets the Urban Placement Guidelines.
(this is not in the walled garden. Permission was Denied.)
Flixton House. Flixton Road
Squire Ralph Wright had this home built in 1806. The last Squire passed on in 1934 and the house and grounds purchased by the Urmston Council. Flemish bond brick make up the exterior with white headers creating a chequered pattern. Its roof is slate topping
off the two stories. The front extension to the ballroom was carried out by the last Squire Samuel Worthington Wright. The census of 1881 showed that Samuel was sharing the house with his brother Thomas. It is now a listed building with its surrounds. (Listed in 1981 Grade 2) Inside the house there is a plaque designating all the land surrounding the house to be protected. Open to the public for viewing by appointment there are a few items of interest saved there from the estate of Shaw Hall kept for posterity. Flixton House is licensed for the conduction of Civil Marriages.
September of 1935 saw the house and grounds opened to the public. The Chairman of the Council, S. N.
Penlington officiated with children's races, music by the Cadishead Public Band, and a fireworks display. A
plan put forward in 1936 was for the Red Cross to set up the house as a decontamination unit in the case
of Mustard Gas exposure from a possible air attack. The TA Royal Medical Corps also used the house during their military exercises based on an encampment set up on the nearby fields.
In 2002 a five year plan was instituted for the renovation of the house and its grounds. Scheduled to be complete in 2006 Trafford, along with local input, refurbished the whole site in an effort to return it to its former glory of 1935 when it was purchased by the UUDC. The total estate covered 218 acres originally and cost £69,793.00.
The various Squires at Flixton House passed under several surnames, Wright, Wright Lee, and Worthington-Wright, have all been traced from 1806 to 1935
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