Lisieux Hall Hospital

LISIEUX HALL HOSPITAL, DAWSON LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1073090
Date first listed:
21-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
Lisieux Hall Hospital
Statutory Address:
LISIEUX HALL HOSPITAL, DAWSON LANE
 Lisieux Hall Hospital. Large house from the 17th century and the early 19th century.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1073090
Date first listed:
21-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
Lisieux Hall Hospital
Statutory Address 1:
LISIEUX HALL HOSPITAL, DAWSON 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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
LISIEUX HALL HOSPITAL, DAWSON LANE

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:
Whittle-le-Woods
National Grid Reference:
SD 57266 21509

Details

SD 52 SE WHITTLE-LE-WOODS DAWSON LANE

3/155 Lisieux Hall Hospital -

GV II

Large house, C17 and early C19. Dressed sandstone, with 3-span hipped slate roof, one chimney on the front ridge, another to rear. Square plan of 3 parallel ranges, all originally C17 and mostly encased with new walls in early C19. Two storeys, with attics to rear ranges; symmetrical facade of 7 bays with 1st floor band, modillioned cornice, plain parapet; to the centre a Tuscan tetrastyle porch with pulvinated frieze, modillioned cornice and blocking course; beneath this a stone doorcase with engaged Ionic columns. All windows are tall, with altered glazing. Second and 3rd bays of left return wall are gabled and retain C17 features: chamfered plinth, hollow chamfered dripcourses on 2 levels, and double-chamfered stone mullioned windows on 3 floors: in 2nd bay the hoodmould of a cellar window, a ground floor window formerly mullioned and transomed with 12 lights (only the king mullion remaining), at 1st floor a 6-light window with a king mullion and in the attic a 4-light window with a hoodmould; in 3rd bay a square ground floor window formerly mullioned and transomed, one window of 4 lights at 1st floor and in the attic another of 3 lights with a hoodmould. Right return wall has a central 2-storey canted bay rising to the parapet where there is a gable with kneelers and finials; flanking bays have wide canted bays at ground floor. Interior: altered, but some C17 beams remain, and there are 2 rooms with panelling of c. 1700 (one at ground floor of front range, other at 1st floor of rear range).

Listing NGR: SD5726621509

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
357673
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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