Cruckton Hall
CRUCKTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055663
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cruckton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CRUCKTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055663
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cruckton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRUCKTON 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:
- CRUCKTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pontesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 42932 10156
Details
SJ 41 SW PONTESBURY C.P. CRUCKTON
1/177 Cruckton Hall -
GV II
Small country house, now school. Mainly c.1770, with later additions and alterations, principally of mid-to late C19, but incorporating parts of an earlier house. Red brick with ashlar dressings, slate roofs and brick ridge stacks. Symmetrical plan with 2 projecting 2-bay cross-wings to north. 3 storeys; continuous brick floor band to first floor and a moulded stone string course to second; stone parapet to top carried up around low pediments to centre and cross-wings; 2:1:3:1:2 windows, the central 3 bays slightly projecting, all flush-framed glazing bar sashes with segmental heads; central entrance with sandstone Doric porch (c.1900) and half-glazed double doors; C18 lead downpipe in angle between left-hand wing and main range. Kitchen range to right probably c.1800 and lofty, single-storey billiard room with slate roof and bracketed eaves cornice to left, c.1900. Garden front considerably altered, the dominant feature being a prominent 2-storeyed canted bay added c.1812 with tall 18-paned glazing bar sash to ground floor. Interior: considerably altered but early C17 chamfered ceiling beams on ground floor of west wing are part of earlier house; disfigured late C18 staircase on south side and on first floor of c.1812 addition a fine plaster ceiling with hunting horn as central motif. The house is said to have been 'almost new built' by Edward Harries in 1770s. V.C.H. VIII (1968), p.259.
Listing NGR: SJ4293210156
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259480
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1968), 259
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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