OLD HALL RUINS

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073771
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: OLD HALL RUINS
Statutory Address:: OLD HALL RUINS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1073771
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: OLD HALL RUINS
Statutory Address 1:: OLD HALL RUINS

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:: OLD HALL RUINS

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

District:: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Exton and Horn
National Grid Reference:: SK 92155 11222

Details

SK 9211 - 9311 EXTON EXTON PARK

5/50 Old Hall Ruins

14.6.54

GV II

Ruins of Old Hall, built by Harrington family in late C16 - early C17 and burnt in 1811 and 1915. Ashlar faced rubble. External walls of Great Hall survive almost to full height, with 4 16-light flat splayed mullion & transom with lozenge shaped decoration above windows and fragments of the cornice above. Within, various fireplaces, and a full height archway, possibly to former staircase, in rear wall, survive. Shadow of former hammerbeam roof in the plasterwork, and a corbel.,survive: Left of the Great Hall is a further full height stump of walling, & left of this again, much of the west wall, with coped gable, large projecting stack, various mullion & transom windows with ovolo moulding. The large kitchen fireplace, and above, 2 4-centred arched fireplaces. 2 cellars also remain, one, barrel vaulted between kitchen wall & cross-passage, the other behind the rear wall of the Great Hall. After the first fire, the hall continued to be used by the carpentersof the Exton estate. Richard Norman Shaw drew up plans for its reinstatement and photographs exist showing the hall intact, with projecting 2-storey porch, shaped gables, & a parapet at eaves level. (SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT)

Listing NGR: SK9269911215

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Legacy System number:: 187334
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 26 Leicestershire,

Legal

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