WOOD HALL AND WALL TO NORTH OF FRONT GARDEN

WOOD HALL AND WALL TO NORTH OF FRONT GARDEN, BREWERY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1199555
Date first listed:: 10-Oct-1968
List Entry Name:: WOOD HALL AND WALL TO NORTH OF FRONT GARDEN
Statutory Address:: WOOD HALL AND WALL TO NORTH OF FRONT GARDEN, BREWERY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1199555
Date first listed:: 10-Oct-1968
List Entry Name:: WOOD HALL AND WALL TO NORTH OF FRONT GARDEN
Statutory Address 1:: WOOD HALL AND WALL TO NORTH OF FRONT GARDEN, BREWERY 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:: WOOD HALL AND WALL TO NORTH OF FRONT GARDEN, BREWERY LANE

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

District:: Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Melling
National Grid Reference:: SD 37994 00398

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/04/2016 SD 30 SE 7/108

MELLING BREWERY LANE (west side) Wood Hall and wall to north of front garden 11.10.68 II House. Late C17 with later alterations. Brick with stone dressings, stone slate roof. Front facade probably C18. Stone base and quoins, cornice. Windows have wedge lintels and are sashed with glazing bars. Central entrance with architrave, pulvinated frieze and consoled pediment; door has 2 lower fielded panels and glazed upper part. Stone with royal arms and "IR" (possibly James II) above, probably re-used. 4 gable-end stacks. Rear has varied fenestration. Interior has some chamfered beams with stepped stops and some 6-panel doors with H-hinges with short straps. Stone wall approx. 50 m. long runs to north of right-hand angle of front facade. House connected with recusant Molyneux family, reported to have been used for Catholic worship (possible priest hole next to chimney breast). James II believed to have stayed at the house.

Listing NGR: SD3799400398

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 216507
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.