WHITEHALL

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

HARTFORD C.P. SCHOOL LANE SJ 67 SW (East Side) 4/38 Whitehall

- GV II

Formerly villa, now council offices: 1835 by John Douglas Sen., some C20 extensions and alterations. Stuccoed brick, hipped Welsh slate roof. L-shaped in plan. 2-storey symmetrical 7-bay entrance front.

Plinth, end pilasters, band at 1st floor sill level and projecting eaves. Central bay steps forward slightly under a flat triangular pediment and has an Ionic porch antis approached by 3 steps. Within are a pair of half-glazed doors in a simple architrave and apair of semi-circular headed niches to the sides. Recessed 12-pane sash above and in remaining bays where there are recessed fielded panels below sill level on the ground floor. Garden front has a 2-storey canted bay at its centre and a good cast-iron verandah around the ground storey with a tented felted roof. Tripartite windows in the end bays. Wing extends to the right in a similar style. Irregular extensions to the north side.

Interior: entrance into the hall open to the roof and lit by an octagonal lantern with an acanthus boss. Hall contains an open well staircase with delicate iron balusters and a bracketted open string.

Room to right has plaster panelled walls and a frieze and ceiling in early C20 Neo-classical style. Fireplace with giant Corinthian columns. Panelled shutters to deep casements. Room beyond has Jacobean style fireplace with re-used marquetry panels and plaster panelled dado, and a servery with fluted pilasters.

Listing NGR: SJ6413571916

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1484 IOE Records taken by R G Noxon; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr R.G. Noxon. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project