Whitwell Hall

WHITWELL HALL, OLD HALL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1055849
Date first listed:
19-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:
Whitwell Hall
Statutory Address:
WHITWELL HALL, OLD HALL LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1055849
Date first listed:
19-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:
Whitwell Hall
Statutory Address 1:
WHITWELL HALL, OLD HALL LANE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WHITWELL HALL, OLD HALL LANE

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

County:
Derbyshire
District:
Bolsover (District Authority)
Parish:
Whitwell
National Grid Reference:
SK 52609 76914

Details

SK 57 NW PARISH OF WHITWELL OLD HALL LANE 2/172 (West Side) 19.11.51 Whitwell Hall GV II*

Manor house, formerly the seat of the Manners family. C17, early C18 and early C19. Coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings and quoins. Stone slate and plain tile roofs with various ridge and lateral stacks. Stone coped gables with moulded kneelers and finials. Two storeys and attics. Chamfered plinth. Garden elevation of seven irregular bays. Projecting gabled bay to the left has on the first floor, a canted oriel window of 1-3-1 lights, with a transom and C19 gothic glazing. Two- light recessed and chamfered mullion window above, in the gable. The return elevation to the right has a 3-light recessed and chamfered mullioned and transom window to each floor. Two unequal gabled bays to the right have a 2 and a 3-light recessed and chamfered mullioned window to the ground floor; a cross window and a 4-light recessed and chamfered mullioned and transom window to the first floor; and a 2-light window in the lefthand gable. Return wall to the right has a 4-light recessed and chamfered mullioned and transom window to the first floor. Three bays set back to the right have to the ground floor from left to right, a 2-light recessed and chamfered mullioned window, a doorway with plain surround and pair of half-glazed doors, a 3-light recessed and chamfered mullioned window, a doorway flanked by single light windos, and a 2-light recessed and chamfered mullioned window. The first floor has three 5-light recessed and chamfered mullioned and transom windows. The east elevation is of five bays. Off-centre ashlar porch with moulded round-arched entrance and pierced parpaet. To the left is a doorway with plank door, and two 4- light recessed and chamfered mullioned and transom windows. The first floor has three 3-light recessed and chamfered mullioned and transom windows and two 4-light recessed and chamfered mullioned and transom windows under gabled half-dormers. The interior has a ground floor room with full height early C18 raised and fielded panelling and a bolection moulded stone chimneypiece. Panelled shutters. An upper room has full height C17 panelling.

Listing NGR: SK5260976914

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Legacy System number:
79341
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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