WHITTINGHAM HALL

WHITTINGHAM HALL, WHITTINGHAM LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073519
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1979
List Entry Name:: WHITTINGHAM HALL
Statutory Address:: WHITTINGHAM HALL, WHITTINGHAM LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073519
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1979
List Entry Name:: WHITTINGHAM HALL
Statutory Address 1:: WHITTINGHAM HALL, WHITTINGHAM LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: WHITTINGHAM HALL, WHITTINGHAM LANE

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Preston (District Authority)
Parish:: Whittingham
National Grid Reference:: SD 56242 36088

Details

SD 53 NE WHITTINGHAM WHITTINGHAM LANE (off)

Whittingham Hall 5/119 22.6.1979 II

Manor house, subsequently farmhouse, now house. Probably earlier C17, much altered. Roughcast handmade brick on stone plinth, slate roof. Three bays, with projecting porch-cum-stairturret in centre, 2 small turrets at rear, various additions to left end and rear. Two storeys; wide 2-storey gabled porch has modern glazed and panelled door offset to right, inner porch with wide Tudor-arched inner doorway of oak, the lintel with an apex nick continued as an incised cross, studded board with ornamental strap hinges; stairlight windows on 2 levels, the 1st offset left and the other above the door, both sashed. All other windows are 12-pane sashes: to left 2 on each floor, to right one at ground floor and 2 above; in right gable one on each floor. Left gable has an extruded chimney stack, and continued to left is a large single-storey extension. Rear: middle bay flanked by narrow full-height gabled turrets (perhaps formerly garderobes), 3rd bay has rear-wall chimney; most of rear covered by large 2-storey lean-to. Interior: 1st bay has very large beam at end wall, like a hearth bressummer, and timber-framed partition wall with wattle exposed; ground floor room in 3rd bay said to have honeycomb-pattern coffered ceiling of carved beams, now concealed; dog-legged staircase with closed string, fielded panel newels, moulded handrail, panelled dado, but lacking balusters; roof of 5 kingpost trusses with curved struts, the east part apparently double-tiered, with a ceiling above the lower tie beams, which are chamfered.

Listing NGR: SD5624236088

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Legacy System number:: 185966
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.