Crookhey Hall
CROOKHEY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1071793
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Crookhey Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CROOKHEY HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1071793
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Crookhey Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROOKHEY 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:
- CROOKHEY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cockerham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 47029 51183
Details
SD 45 SE COCKERHAM
12/62 Crookhey Hall -
- II
Country House, now used as school. 1874 by Waterhouse. Snecked sandstone rubble with slate roofs. 2 storeys with attic. Main front, facing north-west, asymmetrical. Windows have ovolo-moulded mullions and are sashed with no glazing bars. Slim 4-storey tower rises behind porte-cochere, with chimney to left of steep hipped roof. To the left of the tower are 3 bays, 2 with attic dormers. Further left is a gabled cross-wing having an 8-light mullioned and transomed ground-floor window, and mullioned windows above. Further left is another bay. At the far left is a gabled bay, jettied forwards at 1st floor level on stone corbels. Towards the front of the left-hand return wall is a circular turret with conical roof. The range to the right of the entrance and tower has a gabled projection with a central buttress which incorporates a 1st floor oriel and is surmounted by a tall multi-shafted chimney. The porte-cochère has moulded elliptical arches, corner turrets with finials and angle buttresses, and 2 intersecting pitched roofs. Inside timber ribs for a skeleton vault. Inside the house is an entrance hall with a 1st floor gallery with timber front and coving under. The open timber roof has arch-braced collars and is partly glazed with painted glass. In an alcove is a fireplace with timber surround and overmantel, with gothic detail and with ornament incorporating birds: the house was built for Colonel Bird. Other original fireplaces remain.
Listing NGR: SD4702951183
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 182135
- 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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