I sometimes wonder who goes here. I taught for 20 years in Manchester and I met innumerable people who had never heard of it. I left in 1984 but I guess the situation is very much the same now. yet Ordsall Hall is no distance from the end of Manchester's Deansgate and it is a really lovely building over 600 years old. It has been a museum owned by Salford since 1972.
It is a large building, part of which is brick but the half-timbered black and white section is quite supurb. The Great Hall is a most impressive room with some furniture and portraits to match. The so-called Star Chamber [named after stars on the ceiling and unconnected with the Court of this name] is the oldest room in the building and would have been used by the Lord of the Manor and his family.
However I think to many the most interesting part of all is the kitchen with its mutitude of pots, china and tools.
Ordsall Hall deserves to be much better known.