TILSTONE HALL FOLLY

TILSTONE HALL FOLLY, TILSTONE HALL LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1160231
Date first listed:: 02-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: TILSTONE HALL FOLLY
Statutory Address:: TILSTONE HALL FOLLY, TILSTONE HALL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1160231
Date first listed:: 02-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: TILSTONE HALL FOLLY
Statutory Address 1:: TILSTONE HALL FOLLY, TILSTONE HALL LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TILSTONE HALL FOLLY, TILSTONE HALL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tiverton and Tilstone Fearnall
National Grid Reference:: SJ5726260822

Details

TILSTONE FEARNALL C.P. (Off) TILSTONE HALL LANE SJ 56 SE 3/88 Tilstone Hall Folly - - II Ruins of gatehouse. Late C16/early C17. Red sandstone ashlar with English garden wall bond brickwork. Ruinous ground floor and part of first floor. West front: Central round pedestrian archway with moulded springers and ovolo moulding to the arch voussoirs. Plinths and capitals of missing columns to either side of arch. To the left is a blocked 3-light mullioned window with chamfered surround and a pediment over. Remnants of similar to right. Entablature above which projects above the capitals - and again at the corners. Further pediment resting on the cornice at left. East front: Similar to the west face but with two sets of 2 pediments and one cabled Roman Doric column. The building is somewhat similar to the screen at Speke Hall, Lancashire, in its proportions and the use of cabled Roman Doric columns.

Listing NGR: SJ5726260822

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Legacy System number:: 55818
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.