The Garrett was the home and estate of the
lords of the manor of Tyldesley after the manor was split from
Astley. John Tyldesley lived there in 1468 and his son, John, was living there in 1505 when he swore fealty to the Butlers at
Bewsey for his land at Garratt. When John Tyldesley of Garrett died in 1558 his estate comprised seven
messuages, 100 acres of
heath and the same of
moss, 20 acres of pasture, 10 of meadow, six of woodland and 40 acres of other land. In 1613 the will of Lambert Tyldesley revealed that the former manor house contained "a kitchen, backhouse, dayhouse, mealhouse, larder,
buttery,
parlour and hall. In addition there was a storehouse, closet, three chambers over the kitchen, parlour and hall, a small chamber, a servant's chamber and a maid's room." The Tyldesley family held the manor until Lambert Tyldesley's death in 1652 when it passed through his great-granddaughter Mary, to her husband Thomas Stanley. In 1702 Thomas Withington was the tenant and it had a hall, parlour, little parlour, kitchen, buttery and chamber above. There were two
looms in the kitchen and Withington kept five horses and a colt, cattle, sheep and two pigs. In 1716 the hall, its
water mill for grinding corn and
kiln were let. ==Architecture==