Knypersley Hall
KNYPERSLEY HALL, CONWAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1074943
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Knypersley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- KNYPERSLEY HALL, CONWAY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1074943
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Knypersley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNYPERSLEY HALL, CONWAY 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:
- KNYPERSLEY HALL, CONWAY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Biddulph
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 88444 56391
Details
BIDDULPH CONWAY ROAD, SJ 85 NE Knypersley
1915-0/7/10013 Knypersley Hall
GV II*
House. Circa early-mid C18; reduced and remodelled C19. Roughcast brick. Slate hipped roof with lead rolls to hips and ridge. Brick axial stacks. PLAN: The original C18 house was of three storeys and 2:3:2 bays facing south west. In the C19 the four west bays [most of the house to the north west] were demolished and the 4-bay south east side became the principal front. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, symmetrical 3:2:3 window south east front, the flanking 3 windows in 2-storey canted bays, the centre round-headed, all with keyblocks, cills and 12-pane sashes, ground floor right and centre with thick glazing bars, ground floor left glazing bars removed; doorway to left of centre with fanlight and glazed and panelled door. Left return, remains of original front, 1:2 bays, left bay recessed. The north east, originally the rear, is recessed at centre; the north west elevation is irregular. INTERIOR: Fine open-well, open-string staircase has scrolled tread-ends and a wrought-iron and brass balustrade with anthemion decoration and monogram JB and date 1800, signed W. Marsh; the moulded mahogany handrail is wreathed over the curtail. The drawing room has a remarkable mid C18 Rococo plaster ceiling, the design spread over the flat ground with arabesques, interlacing, cartouches, shells, ribands, baskets of flowers, branches of blossom and delicate sheaves, all in deep relief, especially the elaborate centrepiece; there is an enriched modillion cornice. The front left [east] room has a moulded dentilled cornice. NOTE: Knypersley Hall was the seat of Sir Francis Bowyer in the early C17. The house was rebuilt in the early to mid C18 and in the early C19 it became the home of the Bateman family. James Bateman, the eminent hoticulturalist and landscape gardener, who designed the gardens at Biddulph Grange [qv], grew up at Knypersley where he executed his first landscape designs. The house and park are illustrated on a Spode plate made to commemorate James Bateman's 21st birthday in 1832. SOURCE: Hayden, P., Biddulph Grange: National Trust 1989; pp 62 and 63.
Listing NGR: SJ8844456391
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438454
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hayden. P, , Biddulph Grange, (1989), 62 and 63
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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