Dearnford Hall
DEARNFORD HALL, TILSTOCK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055999
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dearnford Hall
- Statutory Address:
- DEARNFORD HALL, TILSTOCK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055999
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dearnford Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEARNFORD HALL, TILSTOCK ROAD
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:
- DEARNFORD HALL, TILSTOCK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 54436 38905
Details
WHITCHURCH RURAL C.P. TILSTOCK ROAD (east side) SJ 53 NW 4/29 Dearnford Hall - - II
Farmhouse. Circa 1680-1700; mid-C19 refenestration and alterations. Red brick with grey sandstone ashlar dressings. Hipped graded slate roof. L-plan. 2 storeys and attic. Moulded stone plinth, chamfered stone quoins, flat stone string course, and moulded and carved wooden modillion eaves cornice. Brick ridge stack off-centre to left and truncated lateral external- brick stack to right at rear. 2:1:1:1:2 bays, with central one-bay bank; mid-C19 six-pane margin-light sashes with moulded stone architraves. Central door with 6 raised and fielded panels and early C19 doorcase with panelled pilaster strips, frieze and cornice. Circa 1680-1700 porch with moulded stone plinth, chamfered stone quoins, moulded stone eaves cornice and triangular-pedimented gable with carved stone cartouche and grotesque head in tympanum. Entrance with lugged moulded stone architrave. Two semi-circular stone steps up to entrance. Interior with side benches. Lean-to addition in angle at rear with integral lateral brick stack. Interior: mostly remodelled in the mid-C19. Entrance hall with picture rail, moulded cornice, and cased beams with panelled soffits. blid-C19 marble fireplace with fluted pilasters and tiled reveals. Entrance hall separated from staircase to right probably in the late C18; doorway to staircase with moulded architrave and Gothic arch. Late C17 dog-leg oak staircase with moulded closed string, barleysugar balusters, moulded handrail and panelled square newel posts with finials and pendants. Late C17 doorway to right-hand room at foot of staircase with bolection- moulded architrave, panelled surround and moulded cornice. Other rooms with moulded picture rails and cornices. Fireplace in left-hand ground- floor room with lugged architrave. 6-panelled doors throughout. In the B.o.E. volume for Shropshire Pevsner dates the building c.1840 but closer inspection reveals it to be late C17 with some mid-C19 alterations (margin-light sashes etc.).
Listing NGR: SJ5443638905
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260580
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958)
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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