DUNSTALL HALL AND ATTACHED ORANGERY

DUNSTALL HALL AND ATTACHED ORANGERY, DUNSTALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1038487
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1952
List Entry Name:: DUNSTALL HALL AND ATTACHED ORANGERY
Statutory Address:: DUNSTALL HALL AND ATTACHED ORANGERY, DUNSTALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1038487
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1952
List Entry Name:: DUNSTALL HALL AND ATTACHED ORANGERY
Statutory Address 1:: DUNSTALL HALL AND ATTACHED ORANGERY, DUNSTALL

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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Location

Statutory Address:: DUNSTALL HALL AND ATTACHED ORANGERY, DUNSTALL

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: East Staffordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Dunstall
National Grid Reference:: SK 19060 20452

Details

DUNSTALL C.P. DUNSTALL SK 12 SE 5/25 Dunstall Hall and attached Orangery 17.9.52 GV II*

Country house. Early Cl9, altered and extended mid-C19. Ashlar; flat roof invisible behind cornice and balustraded parapet; ashlar stacks beyond parapet. Large L-shaped plan. Garden front: to east of 2 storeys and 3:4:3 bays; raised string at first floor level; glazing bar sashes, glazing bars removed to ground floor; lower set-back central recess; 7- bay orangery attached to right; semi-circular headed glazing bar sashes. Entrance front: to south. 1850s Tetrastyle, Ionic porte cochere with parapet fretted to form "IS QUIDEDIT MIHI SERVIT"; tripartite sash to bay oven surmounted by frieze at parapet level and pediment set against attic. storey tower; pediment has coat-of-arms in a cartouche; all set against side of-early C19 house, 2 windows to left of porch and one (formerly 2) to right. Chamfered break to left end leads into late C19 ballroom wing of 7 bays and similar style, finished by 3-sided bay. The entrance set beyond the porte cochere is finely carved with low-relief hunting scenes in art nouveau style, carried across the 2 leaves of the door by Edward Griffiths, circa and dated 1898. Interior: staircase, also by Griffiths, circa 1900, depicting carved foliage and zoo animals; Roman mosaic to main hall of Cerberus and said to come from Tivoli. B.o.E.

Listing NGR: SK1906020452

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Legacy System number:: 273603
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974)

Legal

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