Swythamley Hall
SWYTHAMLEY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037821
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Swythamley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SWYTHAMLEY HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1037821
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Swythamley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWYTHAMLEY HALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SWYTHAMLEY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Heaton
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 97272 64592
Details
HEATON C.P. SWYTHAMLEY PARK SJ 96 SE 5/62 Swythamley Hall - GV II
Country house. Medieval hunting lodge foundation, early C19 core, considerably enlarged circa 1897 by Phillip Brocklehurst. Coursed stone, rock-faced quoins to late C19 work; slate roof hipped to late C19 parts. Irregular plan and frontage with classical, Italianate and Jacobean elements. Entrance front: of 4 main parts, and with continuous eaves, cornice and blocking course which serves to unify structure; side stacks. 2 storeys except to early C19 centre core with 3 gabled dormers to gabled attic; 2 original gables to left half over C20 mullioned and transomed bay windows and projecting flat-roofed porch to right half with central flat-roofed 2-storey bay; 5-light mullion and transom window to first floor and round-arch entry to ground flanked by tall cruciform windows. South wing: to right of 3 windows (glazing bar sashes as are all other remaining windows) with break to end bay and string at first floor level, run round into 3-sided bay facing south. North pavilion: of 3 windows and string at first floor level set forward from frontage and linked to house by Italianate tower of 3 stages defined by strings with 2 blind round-arched openings to top stage and door to base. A fire of 1813 destroyed all of the original house except the 'new wing' of which the left half is still visible in the entrance front. Interior: early C19 top-lit stairs with enriched cornice to well.
Listing NGR: SJ9727264592
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275271
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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