User:Richie wellock/sandbox

Tilstone house was a amazing venue for weddings until january the 12th 2020 but whilst closed for refurbishment a electrical fault with wiring caused a fire that devastated the building on all 3 levels and wrecked Business a amazing business that was hospitality on another level This ended on the 12/01/2020 - 20:26. This Tarpoley wedding venue is Another blow to Cheshire wedding venues like Peckforton castle ( Arson -by the Groom ) and the demise of the Wild Boar Hotel ( Closed due to planning issues over builds on the grade II listed building, it was later damaged burnt and vandalised during this time its demise was well documented by urbex and urban exploration.

Tilstone house was built by Lord and Lady Daresbury in 1888, this luxurious period property was originally used as a hunting and shooting lodge and boasts 130 years pluss as a high society hub of socialising in Cheshire. The Victorian mock construction of a house older that its look was built in 1888 It boasts a timber frame construction. It was designed and constructed for Old Etonian Gilbert Greenall who became the 1st Baron Daresbury. In 1901, Tilstone became home to Major Frederick Howard Wingfield Fetherstonhaugh and his wife Beatrice the Major was a keen Horse man and had several prize stud's. Around 1920, Mary Emma Dempster, wife of John Dempster, bought the gaf ,the Dempsters were an old Scottish family who had become millionaires thanks to the gas industry. After Mrs D's death in 1932, the Winterbottoms family came to live at there. Part of the Etonian Book Cloth manufacturer. The current owners of the property bought the house and grounds in September 1997. The house is a timber framed construction built primarily as an hunting lodge & country house.