SCARISBRICK HALL AT 392 127

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1038565
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1963
List Entry Name:: SCARISBRICK HALL AT 392 127
Statutory Address:: SCARISBRICK HALL AT 392 127

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1038565
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1963
List Entry Name:: SCARISBRICK HALL AT 392 127
Statutory Address 1:: SCARISBRICK HALL AT 392 127

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SCARISBRICK HALL AT 392 127

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County:: Lancashire
District:: West Lancashire (District Authority)
Parish:: Scarisbrick
National Grid Reference:: SD 39171 12594

Details

SD 31 SE 8/16 26.4.1963

SCARISBRICK Scarisbrick Hall at

GV I

Country house, now school. Successive remodelling, rebuilding and enlargement of C16 seat of the Scarisbrick family, begun in 1814, probably by John Slater (of Liverpool) and Thomas Rickman, but mainly 1836-1845 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin for Thomas Scarisbrick, and 1860s and 1870s for Anne Scarisbrick. Sandstone, with stone slate roofs. Hall facing south-east, with east and west crosswings, east tower, kitchens (etc), L-shaped service wing to the rear. All in Gothic style: the west wing of 1814 in early Gothic, the hall and other parts of the main range of 1836-45 in fully developed C15 Gothic revival; the east wing and very high tower in exuberantly French or Flemish C15 style, the integral ornamentation of these parts becoming more flamboyant and fanciful in the progression from east to west. The centre of the composition is Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin's 2-storey open-hall, with 2-storey oriels, steeply pitched roof with 3-stage lantern on the ridge, but it is dominated by Edward Welby Pugin's east wing with an octagonal angle turret surmounted by a cluster of large fluttering birds, and by the tower of extravagant height finished with corner pinnacles and an attenuated rectangular spire. The kitchen attached at the east end, by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, is likewise in C15 Gothic style, octagonal, with steeply-pitched roof and square lantern. The interior is of equal interest, containing much elaborate carved oak, etc, some of it of Flemish origin collected by Thomas Scarisbrick. For extended description see Pevsner North Lancashire pp.218-223.

Listing NGR: SD3917112594

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Legacy System number:: 357718
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Lancashire, (1969), 218-223
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 25 Lancashire,

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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.